3570K enough for a fast storage Nas?

orangecat · October 13, 2021

I've got an old Ivy bridge system laying around and it's got 6 SATA ports on it. It's got 16gb of RAM and I figured I'd turn it into a giant networked storage server running some kind of Linux. Anyone here experienced in this know if a 3570K would be fine for a 10 gigabit NAS? I plan on using 4 NAS drives in raid plus some kind of SSD cache for the hard drives. I don't expect maximum possible performance but I would like to be able to have it be faster than a local disk via SATA interface.

Electronics Wizardy · October 13, 2021

Yea that system should be more than plenty here. I have filled 10gbe on slower systems. You would likely be disk limited here before network or cpu.

What os and filesystem do you want to use? I personally wouldn't use the cache for a home nas here for most home uses. What do you plan on using this nas to store?