09-14-2022, 06:48 PM
(09-14-2022, 04:00 PM)Enquiries Wrote: For a QuTS Hero ZFS which would be a better fit for home use. I plan to populate whichever with eight 20 TB WD Red Pro drives, 4 TB NVMe and max Ram. Are the extra 2.5 inch drives necessary for QuTS Hero?Both have 8 HDD bays. Only 2 SSDs are needed for the system pool, and apps, VMs, and containers can also go there. And SSD cache is less important on Hero since RAM ARC cache makes the larger difference. So a lower-cost unit with just the m.2 but not the 2.5" bays can make a lot of sense for a home user who doe not need more than a few TB of SSD space.
I think there are many good reasons to get the h874. The i5 CPU is more powerful than the Xeon in the 88 series. The i5 is an Alderlake CPU and Alderlake was a big improvement for Intel. Both are great units, but for most home users I suspect the 874 will make more sense.