Good morning all,
My current Truenas system runs on a 2U, 12 Bay E5-2600 V1 server which I have filled completely with drives, so I am looking to move to a new 4U, 36 Bay E5-2600 V4 platform. Specifically, potentially looking at this ebay listing. My biggest two questions are as follows:
- For CPU, what is the best balance of clock speeds vs cores?
- What is the optimal amount of RAM for a system like this?
For context, I currently have 1 pool with 4x 16TB Exos drives, 1 pool with 4x 4TB Ironwolf drives, and 1 pool with 4x WD Blue SSDs. The workload on the server is mostly just network shares (SMB, NFS, iSCSI) for my Proxmox stack and personal computer. I do not plan on using the virtualization ability inside of Truenas.
Thanks!