Hello all,
First post here; I've used FreeNAS for about a year but I'm thinking about converting both my FreeNAS box and my Windows machine into one physical machine. I love the many features of ZFS which is why I'm so interested in the idea.
Currently the FreeNAS box is a G3220 on an Asrock e3c224 itx board; the windows machine is a 3570K (non-ECC). I'm considering going all the way to a Xeon E5 class machine (probably v2 though as DDR4 ram is still hideously expensive).
Main workloads will be a MySQL database and testing automated stock market trading. I may eventually get into programming with R, but I'm squarely in the "novice" programming camp.
As far as I see it, there are two possibilities:
1. Install a lightweight Openbox, VirtualBox, and then just run Windows maximized (I have a dual screen setup if that matters).
2. PCI Passthrough - does that work with GPUs?
First post here; I've used FreeNAS for about a year but I'm thinking about converting both my FreeNAS box and my Windows machine into one physical machine. I love the many features of ZFS which is why I'm so interested in the idea.
Currently the FreeNAS box is a G3220 on an Asrock e3c224 itx board; the windows machine is a 3570K (non-ECC). I'm considering going all the way to a Xeon E5 class machine (probably v2 though as DDR4 ram is still hideously expensive).
Main workloads will be a MySQL database and testing automated stock market trading. I may eventually get into programming with R, but I'm squarely in the "novice" programming camp.
As far as I see it, there are two possibilities:
1. Install a lightweight Openbox, VirtualBox, and then just run Windows maximized (I have a dual screen setup if that matters).
2. PCI Passthrough - does that work with GPUs?