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		thomasjudge on April 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a NAS What's your cpu utilization like? Xeon E5-1630 seems a little overkill

melp on April 11, 2017 | [–]

Oh, it's totally overkill, but I don't have any regrets. I have a couple VMs that can sit on a lot of CPU time when they're in active use.

velodrome on April 10, 2017 | [–]

The article doesn't mention it but it is probably for deduplication.

This processor supports RAM 128GB+. ZFS dedup uses a lot of ram.

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