Atomicnerd64

I want a nas but I have many mismatched drives. is there an os that I can install on my computer that will work with that or should I just buy more of one kind of drives?

all the ones that start with 8 are octacores and the ones that start with 6 are hexacores. the difference is in clockspeed between the other models and in the case of the 8320E a lower tdp as well.

there is a command in linux to check it. it's cpucheck or something like that and if it's enabled the output is kvm ok. don't remember it though

I made the mistake once to try to work on my network before having coffee. plugging cables and and I ended up making a loop on my network and then wondering for an hour what was wrong. a combination of not marking what I patched on a patch panel and plugging cables without thinking too much and thus came a loop. figured it out later though and facepalmed.

before I would have told you to not even bother. now I say let's hope it does. just to clarify vt-d is the ability to pass a pci express device to a vm. vt-x is the basic virtualization.

it has a lot to do with the motherboard. the z87 sabertooth I mentioned? no vt-d with the same cpu. asus's implementation didnt pass some tests and thus none of their z87 boards have vt-d.

I bought a gigabyte ga-h81m-d2v with a pentium a while ago. my i7 4770 was on my z87 sabertooth. I swapped the cpus when school started because I wasn't going to need the i7 and the gtx 780 for gaming since I wouldn't have had time. I decided to play with virtualization by installing proxmox on a spare ssd. I go to the bios to change the boot order so that the computer would boot from the usb and then I saw it. VT-d enabled. I was blown away. I can attach a photo of the bios in case someone thinks I'm making this up.

here are the cpus and their prices in my area: 6300 - 105 8300 - 140 6350 - 150 8320 - 145 8320E - 145 8350 - 170 prices in euros. which cpu should I buy?

I have a good idea of how to do it with 3 or 4 subnets but it's going to be a pain. I have a 24port managed gigabit switch so it has ling aggregation and vlans

I have a spare psu and one 240gb ssd. but you're right. I should probably build something full size. I think I'll wait for xen because the fx cpus are really nicely priced and I can get an 8core for 150 euros but the single core performance is not that great. not that I care that much but still..might as well wait and see.

what do you guys think about building two amd am1 boxes with athlon 5350s? or maybe fm2+ ? there are itx boards for those sockets and the prices are reasonable. I don't know if they support amd-v though...

dual nics are useful if I want to virtualize my firewall but that's later and maybe. what I want them for in this stage is exactly because my main computer has two nics and I want to have as fast of a connection to it as possible to transfer files or do backups. also I will have an nfs share on my nas so the nodes have shared storage.

there are no amd mitx motherbioards that support 6 core cpus and x99 is way out of budget.

planning to build a couple of freenas machines in the future but I will be backing up the VMs to an external hard drive and two other computers by exporting the OVA files.

I know that. I am running 1 vanilla server and 1 spigot server at all times and I sometimes run another vanilla one. the spigot one has some mods but there aren't a lot of people on any server.