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I use an atom C2558 as a file server. It runs under 15 watts, has no fan, 32 GB of ECC memory, quad gigabit Ethernet ports and runs ESXi hosting a Debian ZFS fi
by 0xEFF 6y ago
I use an atom C2558 as a file server. It runs under 15 watts, has no fan, 32 GB of ECC memory, quad gigabit Ethernet ports and runs ESXi hosting a Debian ZFS file server.
It’s perfectly balanced. It can read and write at full gigabit speed, with ZFS encryption, and the CPU is ~90% utilized.
- rubatuga 6y agoI’m pretty sure an intel atom cannot reach gigabit speeds with zfs encryption.
- jeffbee 6y agoBased on? Have you ever used one? They have hardware AES, and have had since 2013.
- tyingq 6y agoThat's part of the confusion. The C2XXX and C3XXX aren't typical Atoms. They use the brand for an odd range of chips.
- wmf 6y agoI always thought the C series should have been branded as something like Xeon E1 to indicate that they're server chips. And now Intel has changed it up again with Snow Ridge branded as E5900 instead of C4XXX.
- 0xEFF 6y agoI'm not making it up: https://gist.github.com/jeffmccune/0f381a69e0a8111c3cac882911062923 https://gist.github.com/jeffmccune/0f381a69e0a8111c3cac88291... WRITE: bw=184MiB/s (193MB/s), 184MiB/s-184MiB/s (193MB/s-193MB/s), io=10.8GiB (11.6GB), run=60067-60067msec Correction from above though, it's an Atom C2758
- flyinghamster 6y agoI think it's the early versions that tarnished Atom's name. I have an ancient Atom 330 still chugging away as my Asterisk box. It's on an old Intel Mini-ITX board, the only Intel-branded motherboard I've ever had that didn't die from capacitor plague. It's hilarious to realize that a Raspberry Pi 4 will run circles around it. The 330 can't saturate a GbE port, and even the SSD pokes along at the 1.5 Gbps SATA speed. If I didn't have a PCI telephony card I wanted to keep, I'd replace it with a Pi.
- dr_zoidberg 6y agoI have a "netbook" (I mean, it is what it is) with a Celeron N4000. For email, light browsing, and watching online videos it's more than enough, and even manages to pull 10 hours of battery life, fanless and barely feels warm to the touch if "stressed" for a long while. That celeron is a Goldmont+, which is a "hybrid" between previous Atom designs, with a few rehashed things from Skylake. Not a bad processors at all, though it lacks AVX (so SSE4.1 is the strongest SIMD it has) and absolutely crawls if you try to do anything number-crunchy on it.
- 737maxtw 6y agoN4000 at least is OOO. I'm pretty sure the 330 was the early core that was (to my understanding) more like a p5 than p6 in design, In order but with HT. A lot of low power cheapie cpus from the era of the N4000 have similar trade offs, if it makes you feel any better. I had a 4 core AMD Jaguar based thing from that era and it was similar, except while number crunching was decent the single channel for memory bandwidth kneecaped anything that taxed the integrated video card or cpu too much. I will still never understand that decision for Jaguar on mobile. If it was a cost concern why not bin? Or was the worry that with 2 channels it would make Bulldozer look worse than it already did? (My personal theory, based on my experience with a 2 core 3ghz dozer part...)
- dragontamer 6y ago> It's hilarious to realize that a Raspberry Pi 4 will run circles around it. Is it? The Atom 330 was released in 2008 (as one of the cheapest, weakest processors, lowest power core Intel would produce at the time). The Rasp. Pi 4 was released 11 years later, on 24 June 2019. I bet you that the Intel Atom 330 ran circles around any chip from 1997.
- ksec 6y agoI am hoping Qnap will release a new NAS with new Atom. 2.5Gbps Ethernet, ZFS support from new OS. Hopefully they update their design of NAS a bit so it doesn't look as bad. I would be interested to know how much do these new Atom cost. But now I need to sit down and think why Intel decide to use 10nm Super fin for Atom, a low margin product at this stage of the cycle. My guess would be yield is great, but that ignores Server Part and other 10nm roadmap.