Jhp612 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) Hey all, Coming back to unraid after a 4 year hiatus. Back then the Aton c2750 was what I used and many others do to is low power requirements and surprising performance. Now that the c3xxx denverton SoC are out I’m wondering why people aren’t using them left and right. Is there a particular reason for this?for my new build I’m planning it looks to be a solid choice but maybe I should be looking something different? Advice welcomed. a few reqs- 8-12 disks with a sssd cache probably running a dozen dower containers including plex VM useage mini itx form factor Edited July 11, 2018 by Jhp612 Quote Link to comment
praeses Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 The main reason is reliability. The Atom-baed platforms have been hit with issues, and folks have lost faith. To compound this Intel has not been great in handling these matters. Additionally, the cost per performance has never been as great in practice as folks have hoped for or expected. Certain tasks they struggle with. Earlier on their benefits were through having many threads and reasonable I/O however considering they're based on older platforms they are often now surpassed by cheap ubiquitous desktop/workstation boards & processors. SMT being available on a broad range of processors, advancements in chipsets and ram reducing platform power consumption considerably, and other improvements make Denverton and company a hard sell. Additionally being bound to a motherboard's controller can have it's issues as well, especially considering the value in the cheap compatible perc IT flashed controllers. They've always looked neat and seem like they should be decent but whenever I've worked with them, or thought about buying one personally, the math has never added up. Quote Link to comment
Jhp612 Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 Thank you praeses! I appreciate the insight! Perhaps I’ll look closer at Xeon d at this point.... Quote Link to comment
jbartlett Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I have a Win10 box running on an Atom fanless system which was being used only for USB over IP devices. It suited that task quite well even with web cams but for anything else, it took forever. Windows Update was a nightly process. I tried getting different unix installs on it but I've never been successful with any of them (primarily Debian). I built an unRAID box for a friend using the same MB and it's suited that task quite well as a NAS with some Sync docker & plugins. Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Mainly because they're big money compared to say an i3 on a server-style board. A Supermicro with an i3 on it will be cheaper and faster. Quote Link to comment
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