Does anyone have any suggestions on very low wattage CPUs for a home server running TrueNAS and a few VMs and containers?
This is what you want:
Intel Atom® Processor C2758 (4M Cache, 2.40 GHz) quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.
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They come from supermicro like this:
EServer Pro is located in the Silicon Valley of California, USA. Form Factor. 2x Fast UART 16550 Serial Port (1 rear, 1 via header). Serial Port. 1x VGA Port. 1x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port. Total of 3x 4-pin fan headers.
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It even has a SATADOM connector... the yellow SATA plug.
Its basically FreeNAS / TrueNAS ready out of the box, no finding drivers, nothing.
Pair it with ECC Unregistered ram. Remember try to max out the ram config as much as possible.
It should serve TrueNAS very well, as its enterprise class intel parts where FreeBSD was practically written for.
If you want something with a bit more power, then you want a Xeon D-1541. Something like this:
Also included is 64GB SATA boot drive that can be plugged into motherboard. Up for sale is 1x Supermicro motherboard X10SD-F. System on Chip. motherboard sku MBD-X10SDV-F.
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My advice is to
keep with enterprise class Intel parts for TrueNAS, and again max out as much ram as possible, as freebsd loves ram.
The ryzens are faster yes, but freenas cpu speed is almost moot, its mostly how much ram you have, and how many 8xpci-e slots you got for addon HBA cards, also
TrueNAS payside uses all intel parts, so i would keep true to intel on this until they start rolling out Ryzens.
Although you may want to even consider spending a tad bit more and getting a TrueNAS Mini-XL.
It even has the case, hotswap bays, 10GBe and psu.
In short i did the math and its not a bad deal for the parts you get plus the support and warranty, especially if you do not have the HBA card.
Also are you going to run the VMs inside TrueNAS or are you going to run TrueNAS inside the VM?
TrueNAS 12.0 has the ability to run VMs and Jails in its own environment.