Power efficient Processor for nas build .

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Sheikh nawab arzoo

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Hi , i am a student i am planning to build a freenas for my home data backup and plex purpose . Can anyone suggest me any power efficient processor for this build . suggest anything except atom c servers processors .
Please suggest some processor which supports ECC memory . And not a Atom processor . So that i could easily find used on ebay .
Thank you ..
 

Spartacus

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I would probably say one of the E3 xeons without info.
However are you planning on doing any plex transcoding? Or just direct play?
 
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Spartacus

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Freenas uses ram as a cache for writes, ecc reduces risk of corruption due to memory errors, it is highly recommended if possible, but not required. If you are planning on transcoding a faster processor would be recommended, the rough calculation is about 2k passmark per transcode running (plus storage overhead).

Edit: higher for 4k transcode
 
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