[Newbie looking for CPU recommendation]

Thanks for this informative thread. 

 

I read some articles about comparison of T and non-T models. I will build a heatsink into the system anyway. It just should be very low noise in normal use. So non-T is the route to go for me.

 

Do you think the i3-9100 (9th gen coffee lake refresh)  has compatibility issues compared with i3-8100T (8th gen coffee lake)? It is about the same price. 

They are in "new" nearly same price as used. 110 Euro new and 90 used. So I would stick for new products.

 

Can you recommend a chipset or mainboard that is known to have a good support in Xpenology for the used peripheral components like disk controller etc ?

[Newbie looking for CPU recommendation]

What do I need for hardware transcoding? That is more theoretically question since I do not really need to transcode.

 

An alternative of 9th generation would be i3 - 9100 or 9100T with the right board. The disk controller will definitely be AHCI.

 

Maybe the easiest is to stick with the Asrock J5040 itx when its available. 

 

I think the performance is good enough for me and I will run it 24/7 so the power consumption is a pro.

The mentioned hackintosh installation which might not be able is a con. But I only need it to compile Apps in Visual Studio for development. So for that time I can bring it up on another computer.

 

With this board I think the 918+ will be the right choice?

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J5040-ITX/index.asp

 

Thanks for your help.

 

 

[Newbie looking for CPU recommendation]

Thanks.

 

I will check that references.

[Newbie looking for CPU recommendation]

Hello, 

 

I am very new to the Xpenology project.  

 

I am a freelance IT architect and software developer.

 

At the moment I use a Synology 1813+ which I am pretty happy with except the well known limitation of memory and cpu power.

 

Now I would like to set up a Xpenology. My goal is to run it to host shares and being a backup server. Beside that I want to run about 10 docker containers. Some of them ( like openkm) with more workload expectation.

 

My first plan was to set it up with a J5040 (when board comes available) with 32 GB ram.  

I read somewhere that this Pentium Silver J5040 does not support the full command set. And for this it could be a problem to set up a hackintosh on the virtual machine. 

 

Then I found another low power cpu which should be fine. The G6400 or G6400T. 

 

Is that cpu fully supported by Xpenology? It has 2 cores and 4 threads. Which DS should be selected for this setup?

 

Or is there probably another low power consuming CPU with full functionality that I do not have in mind yet?

 

Any input appreciated. 

 

Thanks in advance.