Hello and a Merry Christmas to all here.
I am from India and unlike the west, I dont have the luxury of getting my hands on server grade hardware for peanuts off fleabay. However, I am looking to treat myself with a few servers which will give me the reliability I am looking for. Nothing too fancy though.
Currently I make use of a 6 year old Dell laptop which runs Windows 7 to run my gpsgate server to track my vehicles. This same laptop runs utorrent which seeds about 100 torrents at any given time. I use various external drives to save what I need which are accessed using the many macbooks and iMacs I have in the house.
I am looking to get myself a freenas server, components for which have already been decided with help from the freenas forum.
Supermicro Server Motherboard X10SRI-F
Intel Xeon E5-2650V3 with Supermicro Heat Sink
4 x 16 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2133 MHz
2 x 32 GB SSD Kingston
12 x 4 TB WD RED HDD Hot Plug
LSI 9211-8i HBA Controller with Cables
4U Supermicro Chassis CSE847E16-R1400LPB with Slide Rails
Now I am also looking to get myself a server to take care of the gpsgate/torrents/etc and after discussions with one of the authorised Supermicro Distributors of my country, zeroed in on the following:
Supermicro Motherboard X10DRH-C with
Supermicro Chassis SC826BE1C-R920LPB
1 x Xeon E5-2650V3 (2.3 GHz, 10 Cores/20 Threads, 25 MB Cache)
4 x 16 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2133 MHz
LSI 3108 RAID Controller 12 Gbps with 2 GB Cache
Additional Dual Port i350 Gigabit Controller
I wanted to get a server which would allow me to connect a few extra drives for I wanted this server to help me backup any crucial and irreplaceable data from my freenas server like photos, documents and videos.
Other than this, at any time, this server will have 3 or at max 4 VMs running at any given time.
Now coming to my questions. How would a Xeon D-1541 perform with 64GB or 128GB RAM with 3-4 VMs running either Windows 7 or Windows 10? I can get two of these servers with the 2nd one exclusively for backing up all my data? This 2nd server will only come on once or twice a week and go back to sleep once the backup tasks are complete. I can get a 2U with 6 or maybe 8 drive bays for each of these two xeon based systems. Specifically, I am eyeing the Supermicro X10SDV-8C-TLN4F. Rack space is not an issue as I am also getting a 42U rack and neither is noise a problem.
So please advice what would be best for me.
I am from India and unlike the west, I dont have the luxury of getting my hands on server grade hardware for peanuts off fleabay. However, I am looking to treat myself with a few servers which will give me the reliability I am looking for. Nothing too fancy though.
Currently I make use of a 6 year old Dell laptop which runs Windows 7 to run my gpsgate server to track my vehicles. This same laptop runs utorrent which seeds about 100 torrents at any given time. I use various external drives to save what I need which are accessed using the many macbooks and iMacs I have in the house.
I am looking to get myself a freenas server, components for which have already been decided with help from the freenas forum.
Supermicro Server Motherboard X10SRI-F
Intel Xeon E5-2650V3 with Supermicro Heat Sink
4 x 16 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2133 MHz
2 x 32 GB SSD Kingston
12 x 4 TB WD RED HDD Hot Plug
LSI 9211-8i HBA Controller with Cables
4U Supermicro Chassis CSE847E16-R1400LPB with Slide Rails
Now I am also looking to get myself a server to take care of the gpsgate/torrents/etc and after discussions with one of the authorised Supermicro Distributors of my country, zeroed in on the following:
Supermicro Motherboard X10DRH-C with
Supermicro Chassis SC826BE1C-R920LPB
1 x Xeon E5-2650V3 (2.3 GHz, 10 Cores/20 Threads, 25 MB Cache)
4 x 16 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2133 MHz
LSI 3108 RAID Controller 12 Gbps with 2 GB Cache
Additional Dual Port i350 Gigabit Controller
I wanted to get a server which would allow me to connect a few extra drives for I wanted this server to help me backup any crucial and irreplaceable data from my freenas server like photos, documents and videos.
Other than this, at any time, this server will have 3 or at max 4 VMs running at any given time.
Now coming to my questions. How would a Xeon D-1541 perform with 64GB or 128GB RAM with 3-4 VMs running either Windows 7 or Windows 10? I can get two of these servers with the 2nd one exclusively for backing up all my data? This 2nd server will only come on once or twice a week and go back to sleep once the backup tasks are complete. I can get a 2U with 6 or maybe 8 drive bays for each of these two xeon based systems. Specifically, I am eyeing the Supermicro X10SDV-8C-TLN4F. Rack space is not an issue as I am also getting a 42U rack and neither is noise a problem.
So please advice what would be best for me.
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