Rizen 2200G FreeNas Compatibility

[kevdog1983]

I'm looking to put to together a FreeNas build. I've got most of the components figured out but I'm trying finalize the CPU. This NAS will have have several Pools but it's main 3 purposes will be a static Data pool for file storage and onsite backups, a Plex Media Server over 20TB of HD BR MKV (not 4k) files and 20 GB of high bit-rate mp3 and flac files, and a VM and Windows back up pool. The Plex portion may do some trans coding to mobile from time to time but for the most part these will be watched locally on our home theater and Smart TV's.

 

What I'm trying to find out is if the Rizen 2200G is compatible with FreeNas I can't find clear answers on the FreeNas guides and find that the FreeNas forums tend to be a bit elitist and think that unless your building enterprise level gear your doing it wrong (which I guess is true for mission critical work but not for me). I've also considered a Intel Core i3-7100 Kaby Lake Dual-Core 3.9 GHz LGA 1151 51W BX80677I37100 Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 630 which from what I can tell seems to have more official support from FreeNas. I'm looking at the Rizen CPU for the extra 2 cores and ECC support. I chose these two CPU's because they both are a good price to performance ratio for what I need them to do and also the onboard graphics so I don't have to buy GPU just to display the FreeNas console.

I've put together several PC's over the years so I can figure out the rest of the components once I lock in my CPU. If anyone can confirm that the Rizen 220G CPU will work I'd really appreciate it.

 

[phongle123]

Consider this. FreeNAS is just an Operating System. Rather than thinking if this is compatible with FreeNAS think is this CPU strong enough for what you want to accomplish.

According to the Plex guide; any CPU with at least 2000 Passmark will be able to transcode 1080p playback.

Now if you want to do a peak load, playing multiple "different" 1080p playbacks (+2000 passmark/1080p transcoding) at the same time and the other things you plan to do. You will have to do research. Though MP3 playback and a Storage Server do not take up much resources except when you're heavily bombarding the storage with installations, etc.

 

Unless I am reading this wrong, I do not think you can run a VM inside of FreeNAS. I could be wrong.

[kevdog1983]

The Vm part is not that they'll be running off the FreeNas box but the VM's I have create nightly backups and snapshots that I want to push to my NAS with automatic backup utilities. The transcoding strength is my least concern. What I'm worried about is hardware support as the 2200G is a fairly new CPU/APU and I want to ensure the when I go install FreeNAS it will work. I get that it's "Just an OS" but FreeNas is FreeBSD based and as such might be a further behind on the support curve for drivers for both the CPU and the Motherboard to run it. I've seen Rizen 1st Gen FreeNAS builds on Youtube recently but none so far with the Rizen 2 series with on board graphics. I also don't have the time or funds to play the try it and see if it works game either.