If memory is the key thing to worry about to “speed up” TrueNAS then what CPU specs really matter?
Intel vs AMD?
Cores?
Etc.
I don’t understand the point of paying for xenon unless I am missing something.
Goal: build at home as the primary under 10GB. And then another one for offsite back up that only powers on at night to capture differences.
If you are tasking the system with a lot of writes from SMB/NFS/iSCSI or running VM’s or using encryption then a faster processor would help. My video editing system has a 10G connection via a SMB share and works fine with an Intel Atom C3758 CPU .
Do you think splitting TrueNAS on one machine and XCP on another is better? I didn’t know if running TrueNAS dedicated is better versus combining the two? I was thinking of building a AMD rack mount like you have for all the VM stuff. Thanks for the feedback.
I prefer to run TrueNAS on bare metal, not virtualized.
Those 3758s have great specs and of course impossible to find. Any other recommendations?
They are an older CPU and I am not the best at keeping up with hardware but most modern CPU’s should work. There are lots of build discussions in their forums