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2013-03-12, 21:10
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-12, 21:11 by jangjong.)
Hi Guys!
I haven't posted anything here for ages lol..
and i am posting this up because i need you guys' help again heh.
i was wondering if anyone is using ASUS C60M1-I or ASRock E350M1/USB3 for their unraid or xbmc machine?
I posted the same question over at unraid forum, but one of the user pointed out that they may be too weak for sabnzbd.
What i need from the server is to consume the least power possible, but able to run sabnzbd & sickbeard... and cheap lol
I am not planning on doing any transcoding.
what do you guys think? Is C60 or E350 too weak to handle sabnzbd's par/rar processing?
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too weak for sab? I don't think so
sab only uses high cpu during unrar or repair. But then again if the cpu is weak, it's just going to take a little longer. No problems there. Normally during downloading, cpu utilization is very low.
Transcoding is where a weak cpu would have issues, as the cpu would have to keep up with the stream in real time. But you said you won't be doing any transcoding so that's fine.
I also hear that the celerons have real low power consumption. Now, their tdp's are higher than zacate, but as long as their utilization is low, the power consumption is comparable to zacate (TDP is the maximum consumption if the chip were to be pushed to its limits). In an unraid configuration, the celeron would be idling the majority of the time, not breaking a sweat, and using very little power
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2013-03-13, 19:23
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-13, 19:24 by aptalca.)
I would assume it would take 10-15 min to unrar/repair with zacate instead of 3-4 with an Ivy or Sandybridge celeron
Celeron 847 is not much more powerful than the zacate (It is clocked very low at 1.1Ghz). Also the celeron 847 is 32nm architecture, whereas the G1610 is 22nm, which makes the G1610 more efficient
passmark scores:
e450 = 806
celeron 847 = 1058
celeron G1610 (Ivy bridge max TDP-55W) = 2647
I think any one of those would work just fine for basic unraid with no transcoding or virtualbox
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ASUS P8H77-I + Celeron would make for a nice NAS setup. Like the ASUS C-60, the P8H77-I has 6 x SATA ports.
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I wouldn't go for the sempron 145
It used to be the "standard" up until about a year ago, because it used to be the only decent chip below $40. But now that you can get celerons at that range, I would go for a celeron instead.
Don't get me wrong, I have the sempron 145 in my unraid box, but that's because I built it a while back. I also unlocked the second core to reveal an athlon ii x2 4450e (I was lucky as there were no guarantees). If I were to build a new box today, I wouldn't go for the sempron because I think there are better alternatives at that price range and power consumption.
At the time I had to decide between the sempron and the zacate. I went with the sempron because it was cheaper and it had the potential to be faster with the second core unlock, so I took a chance and it worked out for me.
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2013-03-14, 21:59
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-14, 22:01 by Busenheimer.)
I'm doing a similar Celeron build, but with the Asus B75 Pro3-M. 8 sata ports for $70
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