Complete overkill or just do it?

evand · June 23, 2016, 10:14am

I have an opportunity to pair this:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLM-F.cfm

with this:

with 32GB RAM on board at a great price.

It’d house my music library and run Roon.

Complete overkill I presume

andybob · June 23, 2016, 10:39am

mannp · June 23, 2016, 12:21pm

Same setup as me so not overkill at all!

NickB · June 23, 2016, 12:42pm

Today Roon - tomorrow the Universe

Carl · June 23, 2016, 1:20pm

I’ve got a similar-ish dilemma buy a two seater sports car or get something more practical.
“Mid-life crisis” nope … but I’m in a position where I can … so why not? … YEY !!!

So I say … @evand go for it.

Ludwig · June 23, 2016, 2:31pm

That’s not dissimilar to running RoonServer on a Mac Pro, which a few people do (and I’m considering).

I say go for it.

Do you sense a trend?

RBM · June 23, 2016, 2:35pm

Quad core. You know you can do better.

evand · June 23, 2016, 2:58pm

Storage is the issue, 6x SATA ports isn’t a lot to work with to add storage for video etc. unless I use larger drives.

DrTone · June 23, 2016, 3:56pm

Use a NAS and iScsi luns for storage. If you use 10GB or link aggregated 1GB links the performance will be just fine.