I find the 4750G and 4650G come up on eBay often for decent prices. Not too different from the 5000 series PRO chips. I think slightly different cache amounts and of course just a bit slower performance (Zen2 vs Zen3). Still very efficient.

The only thing I’m not sure about is their max RAM amount. I know the 5X50G series supports 128GB (depending on mb), but can’t find any info on the 4X50G series. I assume also 128GB like the non-PRO variants.

Yeah it makes sense. Rarely do people custom build their own office machines. But they are great chips for low power with ECC. That’s a rare thing to find when doing a custom build.

They need to make the PRO variants more accessible this time around. The 5X50G/E were and still are next to impossible to find.

Turnkey with some serious regrets.

I just need a simple way to store my data and back it up. I went with a Synology DS1621+ and I also have a DS218j.

Things that really had me questioning my choice:

• Both of them are the noisiest enclosures I’ve ever encountered. Rattling all over the place and having to hack the case to stop things from rattling. It drives me crazy. I paid over a thousand dollars for a case that I need to hack to keep my sanity.
• Power consumption. The DS1621+ uses 35W at idle, even when the disks are not spun up and another 55W for 6 disks that never spin down (I’ve tried everything). That’s 90W. The idea is that this would run 24/7 but that ends up being over $225/year. This consumes as much power as my 5950X w/ 6800XT at idle. That’s insane to me.
• Fear of vendor lockup and restrictions on what I can do with the hardware. Out of the box, Synology doesn’t allow NVMe volumes. I can run a script to enable it, but I really dislike the fact that they are intentionally restricting what I can do with my device.

So I’m downgrading my Ryzen machine to a low power APU and going to use it as an all flash server. Will use TrueNAS and just have my SMB shares. Only going to boot my Synology once a day for a couple hours to back up everything so I have my second copy. The one thing I like about the Synology devices is that it’s super easy to schedule on/off time windows.

So annoyed that I spent all this money on the DS1621+ and it’s just going to act as a backup server. Will probably look to replace the DS1621+ as a backup eventually too.