Reddit reviews Intel NUC Kit NUC6i5SYK
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6th generation Intel Core i5-6260UIntel Iris graphics 540Up to 7.1 surround audio via HDMI and Mini DisplayPortInternal support for M.2 SSD card (22x42 or 22x80)Support for user-replaceable 3rdparty lidsIntel Wireless-AC 8260 M.2 soldered-down, wireless antennas (IEEE 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.1, Intel Wireless Display 6.0)19V, 65W wall-mount AC-DC power adapterMulti-country plugs(US, UK, EU, AU)
It depends on the model, they range from a bit under 300$ to about 600$, but I understand UKians get screwed on electronics prices.
https://smile.amazon.com/Intel-NUC-NUC6i3SYH-BOXNUC6I3SYH%C2%A0Silver-Black/dp/B018NSAPIM
https://smile.amazon.com/Intel-NUC6i5SYK-BOXNUC6I5SYK-Silver-Black/dp/B018NS910U
I can't find the i7 version right now.
I use a NUC6i5SYK (with the latest BIOS) with 16GB of Kingston Technology HyperX Impact RAM (HX421S13IBK2/16) and a Samsung 850 EVO - 250GB - M.2 for storage (N5E250BW).
It's running Linux Mint 18.
I did have one problem with crashing when moving between dual monitors, but upgrading the kernel to 4.8.0-32 completely fixed it.
I love it as a development machine and use NetBeans, RabbitVCS, MySQL/Workbench, Sublime Text or NotePad++ in Wine, Remnina, iReports, Thunderbird, FileZilla, TeamViewer, Pidgin, LibreOffice, VirtualBox, Meld, and others daily.
I was super hesitant because the Skylake NUCs had big problems when they first came out, but forum complaints seemed to die down after the latest couple of BIOS updates, so I took the plunge. So far very happy.
Looks good. Just the 710's are probably EOL'd by now I'd suspect. We've gotten rid of all our 710's, we're running a lot of 620's and already have been deploying 630's for about a year now. But that's my work environment and we need the latest and greatest. For a home lab I wouldn't personally pick a rack mount Dell. They're loud. They use a lot of electricity. The Intel 6th gen NUCs are cheap and you get the latest skylake hardware.
For home, I have 5 of these NUCs and they can all run ESXi just fine. Memory is a limitation, as you can only put 32G of RAM in there. They don't have local storage: they all boot from USB and all the VMs live on an NFS share, in this case, on a Synology 4 bay NAS. Each NUC only takes 65W of power; I'm not sure if they're fanless, but I've never heard the fan turn on. Very quiet. How many watts is the power supply in a 710? At least 500? Maybe up to 750 or more if they're redundant?
And with this type of environment you can run vSphere, throw the hosts into a cluster and have your VMs migrate around on their own depending on usage.
At the time the NUCs were going for $330 (Plus $110 for 32G of ram) but I've seen the prices go up about $50 since then, but looking now they're about $345 now: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-BOXNUC6I5SYK-NUC-Kit-NUC6i5SYK/dp/B018NS910U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1480136435&sr=8-2&keywords=intel+nuc+6th+gen
IMO I would take 2 of these NUCs any day over a 710. You get to play with DRS, vmotion and HA. With your budget you can probably get 3, if you kick in an extra hundred bucks or so. With 2 hosts you'll still have 64GB of total RAM. With 3 you'll have 96GB and some redundancy. They will run 5VMs each EZPZ. If you don't already have a NAS, perhaps you could build a FreeNAS box for storage? (That might be a better use for a 710 IMO)
I'll probably get downvoted since I'm not encouraging you to stick with what you picked. But that's OK. I'm cool with that. I just prefer to roll a different way, I guess. I live in an apartment and don't want a friggin 42U rack in here. I have a desktop rack for my Juniper SRX100, Juniper EX2200 and Cable Modem. Here's a link: http://www.middleatlantic.com/products/racks-enclosures/specialty-racks/dr-series-desktop-rail-rack.aspx
Either way, good luck :)
I have an Intel NUC (Skylake 6th gen i5-6260U with Intel Iris Graphics 540) and it can play Gwent very well. I think Iris 540 is the same (integrated) graphics on the Macbook Pro 2016
Had to turn off Vsync or else I'll get 350+ fps with fans spinning at max, now it's very silent and won't overheat at all.
It's $320-$350 @ Amazon, maybe you can get cheaper elsewhere https://www.amazon.com/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC6i5SYH-Mini/dp/B018NS910U?th=1
That is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.
Can you recommend any specific NUC?
Would this one be powerful enough for my needs?: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-NUC6i5SYK-BOXNUC6I5SYK-Silver-Black/dp/B018NS910U/
And in regards to USB 3.0 hard drive, should I then buy a specific brand? Or will this be good enough?: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB5000100/dp/B00TKFEEBW/
When I searched after the Atom C2758 the word "FreeNAS" came up, is that what you are recommending?
Thanks again a lot for your insightful advice (and sorry for all of the questions).