zlatko

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[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Are you sure? I mean the axe is a nice touch but did you edit the buffer before you smashed the PC?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Well can you attach it when you fill the 250 characters?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pata

How old are those? :)

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I don't want this to be a PC. I have plenty of CPU power for what I do, this has a different purpose.

I'm not planning to run anything much on those Celerons - it's mostly just a file server. People do that with a RasPi - a 4-core CPU is going to blow it out of the water I think.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also wanted some Ryzens, but my requirements were different. I did not want so much computational power, as much as I wanted low power. Combined with the price and availability, this works good enough for mne. We'll see in the long run.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, in fact! Two main reasons.

  • I wanted low-power, this is mostly gonna sit in the closet and serve files around. Even ARM CPUs like the RasPi can do that. But I didn't want it to be too weak, in case I wanted a simple service or two, this still has extra oomph. This isn't too powerful, but it is a 64-bit x86 CPU.

  • I also wanted some ports. This has 4 SATA ports. It's supposed to be a NAS. It has a Gbit ethernet - I don't have a Gbit network at home so this is good enough for now, and I can expand it somewhat. It has USBs, expansion slots etc.

  • those two combined resulted in a few selections, AsRock's mini-ITX boards with integrated CPUs are quite good choices in this space.

  • I wanted low power consumption. I could have gone with a slightly stronger ‎J5040-ITX perhaps, but it's also using just slightly more power.

  • it's also cheaper, the mobo with the CPU cost me 120€. The j5040 I mentioned would be a bit more - not a lot but still noticable.

  • I wanted silent, and this board and CPU is passively cooled. If I had money, I would get SSDs for storage as well (less power, less noise) but it's a LOT more expensive.

I know there are other CPUs in this space but in the end you have to pick one so I did.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did you find it for cable management?

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I ordered a SATA SSD already, and I did plan to read about the E key slot later, but for now I'm good. The board has 4 SATA slots, so I will either have to have an USB OS disk or an adapter like this, but for now I'll just go with what I know.

Do you know what are the speeds like on that Sintech or similar adapter? I don't really need NVMe speeds, it's a simple OS disk, but I wouldn't like to go down to something bellow regular SSD speeds.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I like it a lot. FD has this niche and does a good job.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, the specs say less then 5W per HDD. Even if I had older and hungrier disks at 10W each, it's still good. The CPU is consuming about 10 watts, the rest of the board, let's say another 10. Even if I fill all six HDD slots that the case has room for, I think it would work.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Good thing I'm not gonna run Chrome on this :)

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well, look at these few things:

  1. Modern CPUs, even Celerons, are powerful. People are driving a lot of workload even on ARM CPUs, and this is a proper 4-core x64 CPU. I mean, look at your phone, it's most likely doing a lot of full-hd media, right? And it's doing just fine.

  2. Most commercially-available Home/Small Office NAS systems, by Synology, Asustor, QNAP and others, they have either CPUs in this class, or weaker, ARM CPUs. I'm not gonna be sitting at this box. I have 3 desktops and 3 laptops around the house for work - this is gonna be mostly storage.

  3. My planned media management workload is a bit different than media processing. I mostly want to serve files around, maybe transcode something in the background. I don't plan to watch movies off of this (yet). I have a 4-core Hetzner VPS that is similar in power to this, and it's driving something like 4-5 docker containers and still serving all the files.

I think it's gonna be fine, but we shall see.

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