Introduction
After 10 years of service, and several rounds of upgrades, my old Nehalem based server is running into its limits. With 6x 3T hard drives, 3 graphic cards, 32G RAM (double the 'max supported'), and a quad core i7 @ 2.8 Ghz, it is more or less maxed out. I'm running mostly into performance issues w.r.t. CPU and RAM. Yes, the disks are slow too, and adding an SSD might just squeeze out another 2 years of use, but it would mean buying components that I probably won't be using after an upgrade, and would not solve my main problems, being CPU and RAM maxed out.