"Home Server" build

[Djinux78]

Budget (including currency): not a lot

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: File Server

Other details :

 

So i have an "old" haswell server board with a xeon 1220-v3 and 16 gigs of DDR3, but its an 80 watt TDP chip.   All this will do is storage and I will be putting a raid card in it and a couple other hard drives. 

My question is will I get enough out of more efficient parts like an athlon 200ge system with like 8 gigs of ram on an AMD 320 board or since i already have the parts for the xeon just use it?

 

I have a 500 Watt power supply to use and I will be hooking up a 3 tb sas array and a couple 1tb hdds also in a raid setup for 4 TB total.  The server board I already have does support raid for these drives. 

 

Opinions????

 

[mahyar]

1-what server exacly?

2-if nas xeon is a very good system

[Djinux78]

I was planning on just running Win 10 on it and booting off a USB drive that fits in a type A internal port. 

 

Its just on an older Intel Server Micro ATX board. 

[manikyath]

it's modern enough to do decent power scaling, as long as you have a power supply that has decent efficiency in the low power draw section it'll be just fine.

 

also, for storage purposes.. it may be interesting to have a cpu that can bulk up the power when necessary and quickly get back to idle state after the storage task is completed, than to have the thing chug along at 100% load (and 100% power target) because you went with a lower power chip.

 

i should also add, at the bracket of a mostly idle home server, your power supply makes a bigger difference than the processor it is powering, and in the grand scheme of things we're talking about *maybe* 40-50 bucks a year in power cost.

[SupaKomputa]

For file server only 200ge is good choice, highly recommended.

20w power usage, one of the lowest for consumer cpu.

using xeon for home usage is too much power, for such little task.

[Djinux78]

11 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it's modern enough to do decent power scaling, as long as you have a power supply that has decent efficiency in the low power draw section it'll be just fine.

 

also, for storage purposes.. it may be interesting to have a cpu that can bulk up the power when necessary and quickly get back to idle state after the storage task is completed, than to have the thing chug along at 100% load (and 100% power target) because you went with a lower power chip.

 

i should also add, at the bracket of a mostly idle home server, your power supply makes a bigger difference than the processor it is powering, and in the grand scheme of things we're talking about *maybe* 40-50 bucks a year in power cost.

Its a thermaltake smart 500 80+ white

 

[manikyath]

9 minutes ago, Djinux78 said:

Its a thermaltake smart 500 80+ white

 

if you care about power draw at idle, replace immediately... or dont.. really..

 

i've got a bit of an extreme case with my home server, because it's a particularly low power draw, and i've done a particularly extreme upgrade. i went from a 'barely suitable for 80+ bronze' OEM power supply, to a seasonic 80+ titanium, and average long term power cost was literally halved. in my case, from about €80 per year, to €40 per year.. still waiting on return on investment of my €180 power supply.