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I want to build a truenas server with the cheapest CPU I can find that can support ECC RAM: Celeron G4900T + 64gb ECC RAM + 4x18 TB SAS drives.

I don't have experience with ZFS or with truenas (core or scale), how much important is the CPU?

Use case: hundreds of thousands of small files mostly under 1 mb, but just 2-3 concurrent users

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't mention your performance requirements and I'm unfamiliar with that CPU. Are you trying to saturate your 1G presumably NIC? Reads or writes?

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, just thousands of small files. Windows takes around a minute to enumerate all the files in the main share via SMB

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You should be good, then. Probably don't need SSDs for ZIL and L2RC either. Don't forget to schedule a weekly scrub, to catch bit rot. Essential for large drives.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

reason why i use a C246 motherboard and other high end expensive components, but such a cheap cpu: someone will sell me used supermicro mobo+ECC ram+SAS HDDs for 500 euro, but no CPU. A Celeron G4900T costs like 15 euro, i was wondering if it could suffice, because this is already overkill for me, at the moment i have no idea on how to use the 36 TB of storage (2x redundancy)

[–] fnv@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It’s ok until you start using jails or dedup.

ZFS tends to be more RAM intensive so make certain you have, at bare minimum around 16GB. But I would push for more.