Hi all, I am putting together a build for a file server that can handle some light VM applications. 10Gb NICs are ideal, and IPMI is required.
Originally I was looking at the X12STH-F paired with something like a E-2378G but really prefer something with more throughput than the 2x1Gb ports & more SATA ports so I can have at least 8x HDDs for storage and 2x OS drives. I saw the X12SPM-TF which has 10 SATA and 10Gb NICs but that is quite the step up in cost (+325 from my vendor)
I see the A2SDI-H-TF looks like a decent option since I don't quite need the power of that Xeon CPU, and it is cheaper than the original combo, but I'm not sure if there is anything newer available or a better option I'm not thinking of. Really would love some perspective on this! Cheers!
Edit: this will be running FreeNAS Scale and using ZFS for the storage pools
Originally I was looking at the X12STH-F paired with something like a E-2378G but really prefer something with more throughput than the 2x1Gb ports & more SATA ports so I can have at least 8x HDDs for storage and 2x OS drives. I saw the X12SPM-TF which has 10 SATA and 10Gb NICs but that is quite the step up in cost (+325 from my vendor)
I see the A2SDI-H-TF looks like a decent option since I don't quite need the power of that Xeon CPU, and it is cheaper than the original combo, but I'm not sure if there is anything newer available or a better option I'm not thinking of. Really would love some perspective on this! Cheers!
Edit: this will be running FreeNAS Scale and using ZFS for the storage pools
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