Message from @futuremoe
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No but nothing (except the pricing maybe) stops you from building an EPYC desktop
most software not benefitting from it is quite big block tho
aka "sanity" "do i get anything from this"
i would say that prevents using epyc on most systems
AMD says they're datacenter cpus
doesn't dictate what you end up doing with it, though
yeah people used Xeons for gaming due ??? they didnt care for electricity or anything else really
the low clock count makes it unappealing to me
Xeons maybe for more PCIe lanes?
I think the enthusiast have 40 as well
I doubt ECC makes a difference for gaming
I used a Xeon desktop from July 2012 to November 2018
Yes ecc makes a different for gaming, it makes gaming slower
I have a Xeon E3 in my homeserver
it's p nice
Ecc is not about perf, it's about stability
I would not run a server or video/audio rendering without it
at least the important stuff
It depends what you do on the server
Most use cases don't actually require or even benefit from ecc
What kind of raid level?
I use FreeNAS w/raidz2
6 3tb wd reds
Then ECC brings a benefit
But only because of the raidz2
Everything else that you said has 0 benefits from ECC
yeah I have to. so many lifehacker tier guides said "just pick up old pc parts and smash them together" and FreeNAS forums were very clear about how important ECC is
Data storage is directly affected by raid z2, Plex is not
im still not sure about what to run on my NAS
if your memory is fucky with z raid it's bye bye
ZFS, unRAID (XFS), mergerfs + snapraid
In my limited experience FreeNAS and zfs z2 has been good to me
4 disks, but i want to expand
ZFS can't expand with single disks
one hard drive already broke, it sent a mail, resilvering was a breeze
How many disks do you want to have?
i have 8 bays
How large are the single disks going to be?