RPI zero? Without Ethernet ports? How? Just that is enough of a deal. Without thinking about the cpu power and the fact that pfsense, the free version, doesn't work on arm.
IlTossico
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Not your case. And depends on your use case.
Not x86. I think this answer all questions.
That's a nice heater! And a very good door stop. Nice catch.
That's a good way to kill a disk. Don't use NTFS and you are fine. Go for Btrfs and similar.
Do you plan having VMs or only Containers? Because Plex, alla ARR stuff and NVR can work on containers. In that case the i3 is extremely overkill too, but if you plan to run a lot of VMs, the i5 of course have more core.
In terms of power consumption, both idle around 25W (generic system with no GPU and Idling HDD), the i5 would peak more, but depend on the usage, generally server idle 99% of the time.
TDP doesn't mean Power Consumption for Intel, but is related to Thermal Dissipation. The i3 would consume the same as i5 idling, because of C-state and the ability to almost shut off the unused cores, then on peak power, having more cores and frequency, mean more power consumption, but peak mean burst of 1 second at max.
I regret not having enough money for everything i want.
My NAS build is perfect for my need, and i think it's perfect for most of us, i'm sure there are tons of people that take my suggestion and take some hints from them.
The only real regret i have, is having just 8 GB of ram, for folder caching, 16GB would be better, but i can upgrade, so no problem.
The, of course there is possibility for improve, like ECC, IPMI, better case, bigger drives etc, but those things cost too.
If someone have the capability of troubleshooting and DIY, this remains the best solution for money and performance. Prebuilt are good mostly for company and people that don't want too many problems.
Sorry, i don't understand.
You have a switch, right? Just connect everything to the switch and everything would talk with everything. I don't see the problem.
Do you really need 42U? Can you sell it and get a smaller one?
However, humidity is a big problem.
You are confusing yourself with hardware and different standards. SATA 3 can max out at 6Gb/s. Generic HDD works around 220mb/s, 1G network is 110mb/s, 2.5G network is around 300mb/s.
So to give you a perspective, if you have 1G as a local network, you can't max out a HDD capability, with 2.5G you double the performance, saturating the HDD, if you want more you need a generic 2.5" SSD, if you want to saturate the SSD you need 10G, in that case M2 SSD start to make sense.
Remember that if you want to go 2.5G, you need all the infrastructure of your home to work around that speed, not only the Nas.
Get something with an 8th gen Intel CPU, if it's only a Nas and a few Dockers without VMs, you can get a G5400. Or an i3 8100 if you want more estate. With the G5400 I was idling 10W on my system, but the i5 8400 I've now idle just one watt more, so.
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What can I say to someone that gets an OLD IBM with a dual socket 4 cores CPU, with 2 GB of ram and thinks he hit a jackpot, for 100€, with a system that idles at 200W and has the power of an i3 first gen.
Of course it's a heater, or a door stop, what other things you can do with that system.
Would be better if those people maybe posted before buying those systems, for shopping suggestions. That's a topic. Not your complaints.