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Hello again Guys. I looked up that HP Microserver, it is pretty cool and cheap. Now I have a limited budged so i will remain on virtualized HTPC. Maybe in the future it will be useful.Â

Kristian thank you for the infos on CPU and Motherboard, i wasn't able to find them.

Ragarding unRaid, i read something about it. Is it a good idea to install it as Dom0? In such way it will manage the storage of all the VMs. Gordan what is a ZFS reciever?

About CPUs, I find on the net some benchmarks: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1780&cmp[]=1782&cmp[]=2275

It seems that i7 is more performant than AMDs... But the point is that using Xen and multiple virtual machines, i'll need more parallel calculus power, right? So 8 cores would be better? Is it possible that those benchmarks aren't done using all the eight cores of AMDs? Austin said that he can reach the calculus power of aÂdual processor Xeon E3-1286 v3. That's really a goodÂresult. So maybe i should choose AMD...

Another point is that one virtual machine will be for myself, the other one for my family. My family doesn't need much caclculus power, but in my VM i need the top calculus power i can get with my budget (500â, for CPU and motherboard, maybe something more in the future). What do you suggest?Â

2014-07-16 10:19 GMT+02:00 Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>:

I haven't tried any encryption, but I do use them heavily with ZFS, mostly 4-disk RAIDZ2. Receive always saturates the gigabit ethernet link and scrubs go at about 250MB/s. All my models are older N36L (1.3GHz) and N40L (1.5GHz), i.e. substantially less CPU than the most recent N54L (2.2GHz).

Kuba <kuba.0000@xxxxx> wrote:

>That HP's Microserver looks very interesting, seems ideal for a zfs
>receive server. Did you happen to benchmark it? I would be very grateful
>for any numbers (even very rough), especially related to how does it
>handle zfs receive and encryption.
>
>Kuba
>
>W dniu 2014-07-16 08:23, Gordan Bobic pisze:
>> This is actually a good point. My HTPC is a standalone HP G7
>> Microserver. Â110 new, complete with RAM and a disk. I have a HD6450 in
>> mine purely because that adds a better GPU than what is built in, and
>> provides HDMI output with audio. But it still means you get a complete
>> machine for Â150, that will also double as a pretty decent storage
>> server if you fill it up with disks (if you need that sort of thing).
>>
>> On 07/16/2014 01:35 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
>>> I've got an FX-8320 in my desktop over-clocked to 4.0 GHz, 8 'cores', 1
>>> thread per-core, 125W TDP, and on every benchmark I have tested it with,
>>> it out-preforms a dual processor Xeon E3-1286 v3 (3.7GHz, 4 cores, 2
>>> threads per core, 88W TDP) server I work with at my job, even when I
>>> force the AMD processor down to 1.4GHz. ÂThe Intel server cost more than
>>> 4x as much as the desktop system, takes up more than 3x as much space
>>> (based on volume), uses more than 2.5x as much power, and still can't
>>> beat the AMD desktop system.
>>>
>>> Just as an Aside, using virtualization for a HTPC system is probably not
>>> the best option. ÂI would personally suggest looking into a board based
>>> on the AMD E1-2100 (1.0GHz, 2 cores, integrated Radeon HD 8210 GPU),
>>> it's more than sufficient for an HTPC or lightweight (non-gaming)
>>> desktop, can be passively cooled, and you can get Mini-ITX boards based
>>> on it (including CPU and GPU).
>>> On 07/15/2014 05:20 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
>
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