If there’s room in the box, you might want to consider the P2200 over the T1000
It’s a better performer for about the same price on the used market.
I am considering thermals ofcourse.
The DS1621xs+ has a 250w psu and draws about 60w fully populated. I am confident the 30w T400 will work great, and the 50w T1000 will most likely work as well
Im not sure what the tdp of the P2200 is, nor do I know if it fits physically, so it hasnt been on my radar
This is what my P2200 looks like (installed)
[chuck@glockner ~.2002]$ nvidia-smi
Thu May 23 16:13:20 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.161.08 Driver Version: 535.161.08 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro P2200 On | 00000000:07:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 48% 38C P8 4W / 75W | 4MiB / 5120MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[chuck@glockner ~.2003]$
It might be a bit heavy for the 1621+ (I don’t know its specs).
My P2200 doesn’t draw full power unless I’m running 6 transcodes through it.
Form factor is 4.4” H x 7.9” L, Single Slot
Thank you. Ill see what kind of cards I can get my hands on. I love that I finally can have HW accelerated transcoding on the Syno. Exciting times!
So I got my hands on a T1000 in the hope that it would double my transcodes, but sadly it did not. It will handle 4 x 4K transcodes flawlessly but when I try running a fift session, preformance drops and I experience some buffering every now and then. This seems to be CPU and not GPU related as CPU utilization gets very high when transcoding the audio. Is there a way of mitigating this? Or a way to reduce the cost of the audio transcoding? Does Plex really need to transcode the audio when the target client can play the original format?
As shown here, audio is transcoded in every session
Two encodes are using the CPU. That is the reason for the jump in utilization.
When transcoding to get under a bandwidth limit, Plex will transcode both video and audio.
