NAS CPU Question

[SuperCookie78]

How strong of a cpu is needed for a nas? Would a Xeon X5492  be good or too little. I would also like to stream videos and pictures from the nas. Does the cpu impact streaming? And finally what cpu do you use in your nas?

[TheGamingBarrel]

It is a little weak, but it isnt slow enough to really matter some NAS OS' Prefer speed > Cores.

[SuperCookie78]

It is a little weak, but it isnt slow enough to really matter some NAS OS' Prefer speed > Cores.

what cpu would you recommend?

[Altecice]

It is a little weak, but it isnt slow enough to really matter some NAS OS' Prefer speed > Cores.

 

what cpu would you recommend?

 

Wait what? a celeron would be able to take care of a NAS no need for a Xeon if all its doing is storing information. You need a strong set of disks more than anything else. My server came with a Celeron dual core (before i swapped it out for other VM related reasons) and that was more than enough to watch videos from it and do full Gbit transfers.

 

You can run a NAS on a Rasberry Pi and it will be more than enough.

[UselessWolf]

well weak for a nas? it just has to provide the data therefore networkspeed is the key there are a bunch of nas that use arm cpus i would say that xenon is kinda overdosed look at the synology nas DS1515+ 5BAY 2.4GHZ 4X GBE 4X USB3.0 2X ESATA 

 

5 bay 2.4 ghz quadcore 2 gigs of ram and 4 ethernet ports

 

since a nas provides data on demand and kinda never sleeps if you are using it like a hdd power consumption becomes a real deal

[Streetguru]

How strong of a cpu is needed for a nas? Would a Xeon X5492  be good or too little. I would also like to stream videos and pictures from the nas. Does the cpu impact streaming? And finally what cpu do you use in your nas?

Mostly you just want ECC memory if your data is important, an i3 has support for it and will have plenty of processing power for what you need

[SuperCookie78]

Mostly you just want ECC memory if your data is important, an i3 has support for it and will have plenty of processing power for what you need

what about an athlon 5350

[Streetguru]

what about an athlon 5350

 

the ASUS AM1 board supports ECC, so that's a bonus I suppose