[CPU Throttle Script Tutorial]

Awesome, Thanks!

[Stay on 5592 or upgrade?]

Are there any issues to watch out for?

[Does cheaper j1800 boards work well with xpenology?]

 

Thanks for your input!

Personally, I wouldn't compare G3258 with J1800. G3258 is a real monster next to the J1800. In passmark benchmark, G3258 is scoring around 4000 while J1800 is scoring around 1000. However, for a NAS with just 2 Hdd I am considering the J1800 (or J1900 / A4-5000 I have mentioned before) and 2GB Ram. Anything more powerfull I believe will be an overkill.

 

As for the case, you can consider U-NAS if it fits your budget http://www.u-nas.com/cases.html

 

Yea, I know it's no powerhouse. I don't run any transcoding on my NAS though. I run PLEX on my i7 Mac Mini and just point it at the XPenology for the media.

For the case I just went with a common Rosewill tower from Newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153 I have built many systems in this case and it is hard to beat for the money. Tool-less and quiet.

[Does cheaper j1800 boards work well with xpenology?]

I am using this board http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JQHUE3G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

 

This model has four SATA ports. I am using four Hitachi 2TB drives along with 4GB of ram. Works great. I would like to find a small case to put it all in but most ITX cases seem to limit you there, except for a Fractal Designs NODE 304.

My old Hitachi drives are not super efficient and still my setup uses only 40W at idle.

 

I also have the cheaper two SATA version with the ATX form factor I am using as a PFSense firewall. I used the ATX version since I had an Intel quad port NIC that I wanted to use. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JO1DIIM/ref=psdc_1048424_t1_B00JQHUE3G

 

These are really slick little setups. The processor runs at 30 degrees C or so, they only pull 10-15W, and are dead silent with no fan.

I was using a G3258. This processor is almost as powerful while pulling way less http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Celeron-J1800

 

Here is a site you can compare specs with. The power to performance is hard to beat http://cpuboss.com/cpu/Intel-Celeron-J1800

[5.2 NFS VAAI broken?]

I ran into this trying to copy a vmotion a vm back from my NFS attached xpenology back to a local datastore. Has this been submitted as a bug officially then?

 

I am going to move to ISCSI and give that a shot for the time being.