I'm planning to build a FreeNAS in the near future (possibly around November/December). I would very much like to use an AMD based platform, but there seem to be some issues with Zen support even 18 months after it was released. Specifically I would like to use ECC RAM, and don't prefer to implement a non-official version of it which some motherboards seem to support. That leaves me with an Intel platform.
My current list have the following core components:
I've been following the Xeon E launch, and it appears much better than the E3-120x v6, at least on paper. Both platforms are constrained by 16 PCIe lanes, which isn't a huge issue for me since the maximum number PCIe slots I'd be using is perhaps 2x PCIe x4.
This motherboard looks nice: Supermicro X11SCA-F (C246). The main annoyance is that it is a workstation motherboard with IPMI, and it doesn't have SAS built-in, but that can be rectified by a HBA card.
Is the Intel C246 chipset a workstation/desktop chipset that had been re-purposed for entry level servers?
Would I be better served to wait out the soft-launch of the Xeon E (for the 8-core variant and more server oriented motherboards)?
My current list have the following core components:
- Supermicro X11SSL-CF (C232)
- Intel Xeon E3-1275 V6
- 2 x 16GB DDR4 2400MHz
I've been following the Xeon E launch, and it appears much better than the E3-120x v6, at least on paper. Both platforms are constrained by 16 PCIe lanes, which isn't a huge issue for me since the maximum number PCIe slots I'd be using is perhaps 2x PCIe x4.
This motherboard looks nice: Supermicro X11SCA-F (C246). The main annoyance is that it is a workstation motherboard with IPMI, and it doesn't have SAS built-in, but that can be rectified by a HBA card.
Is the Intel C246 chipset a workstation/desktop chipset that had been re-purposed for entry level servers?
Would I be better served to wait out the soft-launch of the Xeon E (for the 8-core variant and more server oriented motherboards)?