planning omv + newznab build....Hardware questions

The new HP microserver is out soon, HP N54L. You might wanna take a look before you mess with the c-60.

If you want some power I still wouldn't use the c-60. It's pretty weak. If you go matx you might want to try an AMD sempron 145. If the 2nd core opens look at benchmarks below. Make sure you get a board with southbridge sb-710 or higher. You have to weigh power consumption vs. power. My 4450e machine idles at like 47 watts. Low enough for me to run 24/7.

Benchmarks on C-60:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+C-60&id=243

Benchmarks AMD 4450e ( a sempron 145 with 2nd core unlocked):
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cp…MD+Athlon+Dual+Core+4450e

Zitat von "j00fek"

looking at mini-tix setups and would like the lowest watts on the proc etc... looking at the AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0GHz, dual core) + 8GB DDR3

would a dual 1.0 be able to keep up with apache, php5,etc? while being a NAS as well?

whats the load while running omv say after 200+ days, watching mkvz, streaming, recording.

thnx!

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Well I have a dedicated OMV NAS running with a AMD C-60 mainboard and 8GB memory.

Installation of OMV is a breeze.

At the moment I got Sabnzbd, CouchPotato, SickBeard, AutoSub, Spotweb and Newznab+ (13 groups) running on it and I have no problems at all.

Got a HTPC with XBMC streaming video's from the NAS and I got no problem watching a 1080p movie while it's downloading a movie through Sabnzbd+ and Spotweb + Newznab updating at the same time. Sure the CPU will hit the 100% from time to time but it doesn't seem to effect performance too much.

So if you want a low budget home made NAS with low TDP, the C-60 isn't such a bad idea.

The c-60 is fine for what you are using it for X. But if you need to do transcoding or want to use virtual machines you are going to want a more powerful cpu.

As tekkbebe wrote,

all of those low power CPUs are greate for pure NAS and perform very well also with Raid5 etc. pp. This is also true for N40L N54L etc. Microservers from HP. But if you need Transcode, get into a Core i3 (or whatever similar) to get computing power in. Of cause you are then limited into how low you can get in power consumption.

If you try to do what you proposed, I would still opt into a HP Microserver and simply attach an eSATA enclosure for addition drives.

BTW: you can put in 4TB drives nowadays, that would give you 12 TB netto disk space. I wonder if this is not enough? Also consider that you need to backup all that in one or the other way. ... huh quite a bit of data to move around

Ser

My low idle power OMV system:
PSU: Antec 430w 80plus
cpu: AMD A3500 with 0.2V under voltage
MB: Gigbyte A75-D2H
HDD: 2.5" 80GB OMV system + four seagate 3TB data
4GB RAM
Idle Power 28W on AC
copy data 60W on AC
speed ~115MB w/r with one core at 60%

And how low is low power? Do you have a Watt mesurement system, to mesure the power consumption? Can you post it please?

I use Kill a Watt to measure the AC power consumption. I just bought a Dell 265w 80 plus gold PSU at Ebay for $18. Now my system idle power consumption go down to 23W

my estimate the power usage for
MB: 12W DC
3TB HDD: 0.75W x 4 = 3W ( at sleep)
80GB HDD: 2W (active)

total DC: 17W

PSU efficiency:
17W/23W ~ %74 (Dell 265W 80 plus gold)
17W/28W ~ %61 (Antec 430W 80 plus)

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Ser, here is the device most of us use to check our server's load.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/…tOnly=1&IsVirtualParent=1

Yes, that is what I used