*nods* The Atom marketplace appears to be a bit... relaxed. CPUs that have been out for a while don't have much device support yet.
I'm looking for something that can generate at least a gig of throughput and can put at locations outside of my NOC. Thought the C2750 would be the ticket, but just not a lot of support. A small virtual environment is pretty easy to do. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Conlin via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:58:36 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Atom D525 vs C2750 We have been planning on standing up a couple of light duty Linux servers to upgrade our DNS and RADIUS and maybe even a CACTI upgrade later. Are these newer ATOM platforms and a couple of small SSD's up to these tasks? How does the D525 do? It appears the C2750 has been out for nearly a year but I'm are not finding too many products using them. Intel's chart makes it look like the C2550 (4 cores vs 8 cores) might be a more cost effective replacement to the D525. But there are even fewer C2550 motherboards out there and they are not significantly cheaper than the C2750 or even the D525. Are we just not looking in the right places or is this low-cost low-TDP server market just really small? PC Blaze Broadband > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof via Af > Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2014 2:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Atom D525 vs C2750 > > I have several small Linux servers using Atom D525 processors for tasks like DNS and > RADIUS, I even have one running Win7 that I use for PRTG and CNUT and RDP > sessions. Put a couple 128 GB SSDs in them and with passive cooling and low TDP > you have an almost indestructible little server. > > Going forward, I'm wondering if I should look at the newer C2750 version, it would > seem to support more memory and storage, 4x as many cores, 2x as many threads, > higher clock speed, more cache, supports ECC memory, but at a higher price and TDP, > and the Ethernet NICs might not be as good as the 82574L chips on the motherboards > I have been using. Also at that price point you could question the value compared to > just using an i3 or E3 processor. And even if the D525 is an old design with limited > cores, cache and memory addressing, it does the job, so the only reason to use the > newer chips may be for future proofing. > > So has anyone done the analysis or actually deployed C2750 based servers?
