Posted September 30, 2017 I there! WARNING Hopefully, my title make sense. Sorry it it doesn't, I'm not the one who will configure the machine, but I'm pretty sure that's what our IT guy said to me, but I could be wrong. SHORT VERSION We need a new file server / web environment / VM machine and I was thinking about a Ryzen 7 since it's a lot cheap than current Intel offerings while still having high-core count (and supporting-ish ECC memory if we decide to go for that). I want to know if any of you tried something similar with good result. Especially concerned with AMD compatibility / performance with ZFS / Linux / VM machine and ease of setup, vs our old Intel machine. LONG VERSION I work at a web agency and we are currently looking to upgrade our local dev/file server. It is used simultaneously by ~10 programmers + any designers / project manager who needs to access a files. We also send links to our clients for approval before anything goes live. Our current setup is something that they made at the very beginning of the business: A old Core 2 Duo, I don't remember the specific SKU 6gb of DDR2 some WD reds 4-5To in raid (Those will be use in the new build) The system is used daily for 3 things: As a simple file server, for our development files such as images, texts, videos, .psd, .ai, etc etc. As a Linux web server. Roughly half of them are customized Wordpress websites and the other half is our own in-house CMS. As a VM machine. Sometime we need to setup VMs to accommodate certain clients needs. Probably around 2-5 VMs would be up at the same time (That's something we are currently unable to do). Our old server is not even thaaaat terrible, but we start having longer load time for our dev websites, backups during the night are not done when we arrive next morning, and running even just one VM is just not an option. I searched online, and people tends to say that in the past, AMD was not best suited for these tasks, but what about Ryzen? Did anyone here tried something similar with good result? I am especially concerned with AMD compatibility / performance with ZFS / Linux / VM machine and ease of setup, vs our old Intel machine. If you think I missed any relevant information, ask bellow, I'll update this post. Thanks! Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/840767-ryzen-7-for-zfs-linux-vm-machine-server/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 30, 2017 If it for enterprise/business i would go with Intel and actual support for ECC and hardware support from NAS Os providers such as FreeNAS. Magical Pineapples
