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Just keep in mind that Intel is keeping the total PCIe bandwidth out of those CPUs very constrained on purpose.
by _cenw 1y ago
Just keep in mind that Intel is keeping the total PCIe bandwidth out of those CPUs very constrained on purpose.
- cm2187 1y agoThe best solution in my opinion is to buy 5y old, used, server motherboards and CPUs (like AMD Epyc 3 right now). They are fairly cheap, it is durable products designed to work 24/7, and it comes with a huge number of PCIe lanes and extensibility. Same with enterprise SSDs for home usage, which is usually very little write. A used enterprise SSDs with a ton of endurance and very little writes is probably the best bang for your bucks. Wouldn't do that with hard drives though.
- donatzsky 1y agoPower consumption is at a completely different level, though. The N100 gives you pretty good performance with very low power draw.
- Dylan16807 1y agoArk says 9 lanes of PCIe 3.0? For a NAS, I don't think I'd need more than 1-2 lanes for any single device. That sounds fine.
- freeAgent 1y agoYeah, I assume most home users these days are never pushing a NAS beyond 1Gbe, and 99% of people who have faster networks are still probably just doing 2.5Gbe (still just talking about home use). This wouldn’t make that PCIe bandwidth sweat.
- mschild 1y agoAbsolutely. This particular setup is meant more for your bog-standard home NAS.