Best CPU for 10Gbe NAS?

[ImServs]

Building a 24TB 10Gbe NAS in a SFF case. What CPU would handle this best? Ryzen 3/5/7 Intel i5/i7?

 

The server is running Unraid. x3 NAS drives, x2 redundant drives, x1 ssd cache

[tkitch]

what else are you doing on it?  

 

cuz a NAS alone doesn't need a ton of cpu power, unless you're doing a ton of encryption or something.

 

R5 / i5 would be plenty for normal NAS use.  
But is it SSD based?  Cuz HDDs will not saturate 10gbe unless you have a TON of drives.

[ImServs]

14 minutes ago, tkitch said:

what else are you doing on it?  

 

cuz a NAS alone doesn't need a ton of cpu power, unless you're doing a ton of encryption or something.

 

R5 / i5 would be plenty for normal NAS use.  
But is it SSD based?  Cuz HDDs will not saturate 10gbe unless you have a TON of drives.

its SSD cached with a 500gb Samsung 970 evo plus. 5 drives total. Its just storing game dev files that are being constantly updated and accessed.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, SenpaiServs said:

its SSD cached with a 500gb Samsung 970 evo plus. 5 drives total. Its just storing game dev files that are being constantly updated and accessed.

THe nas part itself needs very little cpu. Something like a i3 would be more than plenty here. 

 

What os and drive config are you running?

[Needfuldoer]

Anything relatively modern will be fine.

[tkitch]

38 minutes ago, SenpaiServs said:

its SSD cached with a 500gb Samsung 970 evo plus. 5 drives total. Its just storing game dev files that are being constantly updated and accessed.

on 5 drives you will not be doing anything to saturate 10gbe.  

[mariushm]

Ryzen at least supports ECC so that's a bonus. Ryzen 4100 is around 65$,  or you could get a 4600g for 95$ ...

A motherboard's also around $65-$85 ... you can get a motherboard with 2 pci-e x16 slots and put the video card in the bottom slot that has fewer pci-e lanes and put the 10g card in the pci-e x16/x8 slot.

[ImServs]

3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

THe nas part itself needs very little cpu. Something like a i3 would be more than plenty here. 

 

What os and drive config are you running?

Ill update the post, thanks for reminding me.

 

The server is running Unraid. x3 NAS drives, x2 redundant drives, x1 ssd cache

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, SenpaiServs said:

Ill update the post, thanks for reminding me.

 

The server is running Unraid. x3 NAS drives, x2 redundant drives, x1 ssd cache

Unraid is normally pretty slow as it can read/write from one drive at a time. Switching to something like truenas would speed it up a lot.

 

Id probably go with. single parity with 5 drives if it was me, but 2 parity isn't a bad option.

[ImServs]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

Ryzen at least supports ECC so that's a bonus. Ryzen 4100 is around 65$,  or you could get a 4600g for 95$ ...

A motherboard's also around $65-$85 ... you can get a motherboard with 2 pci-e x16 slots and put the video card in the bottom slot that has fewer pci-e lanes and put the 10g card in the pci-e x16/x8 slot.

modding a SFF case (Meshlicious) to fit up to x9 3.5 drives. Whatever cpu i get, itll use iGPU. a 4600G isnt a bad idea.

[ImServs]

59 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Unraid is normally pretty slow as it can read/write from one drive at a time. Switching to something like truenas would speed it up a lot.

 

Id probably go with. single parity with 5 drives if it was me, but 2 parity isn't a bad option.

well im backing up off site anyway so i should be fine with 1 parity. however ill have space for 9 drives so i could just toss in 1 more for extra storage later.