Hi all,
My lab/NAS/Firewall setup currently consists of a Cisco C220 m3 and an Intel S2600gz system sold under the Penguin Relion badge (running stock Intel bios). Both have been rock solid stable with E5-2640v1 processors and IIRC 48gb of ram per.
Both are running ESXi 6.7 and I have my Sophos UTM firewall and FreeNAS (haven't upgraded to the new images under the TrueNAS name yet) running on them as my primary permanent services for the household. I tinker with other stuff off and on, and I have some other basic services running in docker via PhotonOS and Portainer.
Now that E5v2 processors are coming well down in price I'm curious if it's worth the upgrade or of I'd be better off leaving them as is until I can move up to a newer set of servers that can take v3 and newer processors? I have a set of E5-2650v1 processors I never installed because I haven't needed the cores and the 2640s have a higher clock speed, but I'm wondering if there are any performance advantages unlocked with the v2s or if my power usage would improve on the newer CPUs.
Thanks!
Nathan
My lab/NAS/Firewall setup currently consists of a Cisco C220 m3 and an Intel S2600gz system sold under the Penguin Relion badge (running stock Intel bios). Both have been rock solid stable with E5-2640v1 processors and IIRC 48gb of ram per.
Both are running ESXi 6.7 and I have my Sophos UTM firewall and FreeNAS (haven't upgraded to the new images under the TrueNAS name yet) running on them as my primary permanent services for the household. I tinker with other stuff off and on, and I have some other basic services running in docker via PhotonOS and Portainer.
Now that E5v2 processors are coming well down in price I'm curious if it's worth the upgrade or of I'd be better off leaving them as is until I can move up to a newer set of servers that can take v3 and newer processors? I have a set of E5-2650v1 processors I never installed because I haven't needed the cores and the 2640s have a higher clock speed, but I'm wondering if there are any performance advantages unlocked with the v2s or if my power usage would improve on the newer CPUs.
Thanks!
Nathan