First HW build - Home server use case

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Which is where going for server-grade parts from a few generations ago is a good fit for a NAS:
The parts come cheap (E3C246D4U2-2T is sold to liquidate “new old stock”; Coffee Lake Xeon E now come second-hand, and Core i3-9100 come for pocket change—all with ECC support) but are recent enough that they can be expected to serve well enough for the next ten years.

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Hey Farout -

I didn’t know that Intel had based the Xeon-E 22xxG line on mobile processors - thanks for pointing that out.

OP said he was buying Intel® Xeon® Silver 4509Y, which has a 125W TDP - when comparing to my gaming CPU on cpubenchmark, the objective facts are:

  • The Xeon is twice as expensive to run (125W vs 65W TDP).
  • The CPU’s performance overall scores are comparable (Xeon’s 18749 vs Ryzen’s 19693).
  • At a fifth of the price, the gaming cpu annihilates the Xeon on value-for-money.

I completely respect that some people just wanna play cloud-data-centre-at-home, and if that is indeed the case, perhaps the OP could have simply asked what was the most resilient hardware that he could get for $3K.

For running TrueNAS at home, for automation and serving 3-4 TVs…. Are we giving good advice buy suggesting that server-grade hardware is both appropriate and cost effective, when we could be helping them keep some money in their pocket?

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Actually that’s true of the E-2300 series. Xeon E-2100/2200 are regular desktop Coffee Lake, with ECC support and specs which generally fall in-between ‘K’ and ‘non-K’ consumer parts. Stii reasonable max power and very good idle power.

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You do not need to spend $3k on server gear though..

For me, I look for used Dell T5820 or HP Z4/Z6 G4 towers, they support Xeon W / 1st/2nd Gen Scalable, ECC ram and pending on config can hold 4 x 3.5” drives and do NVMe..

Around me in Canada you can get used T5820’s for $200-$300 pending on how much ram they come with.