Hey all,
I want to build a new server for Plex, and am looking for some advice on hardware. I am going to cover how I use Plex, and my current system and its limitations to give context on what I am trying to accomplish. Thanks for any help and insights
I need a Motherboard, CPU’s, RAM and possibly a RAID card
-Current System
•Supermicro 24 Bay Server with about 14 hard drives ranging from 5TB-12TB
•Dell H310 HBA
•Using Stablebit Drivepool (Combines drives into a pool, but is not RAID)
•Dual Xeon 6 core processors E5-2620 2.0GHz
•32GB DDR3 ECC RAM
•P2000 Quadro
•2 Dual 10G SFP+ NICs
•Windows Server 2019
•Windows OS & PMS is installed on 1TB SSD
-Limitations
•Read/Write Speeds (Going to switch to RAID to fix this)
•Long load times
•Remote users see some buffering
•Current motherboard does not support USB3.0 or NVMe
-New Server Requirements (Motherboard, CPU, RAM, possibly RAID card)
–This will be installed into a Supermicro 4U 24Bay Server chassis with dual 1200 Watt PSU’s
–I am planning on keeping the chassis, PSU’s and backplane
•Support to run 4 PCIe x16 cards -HBA/RAID card, P2000, 2 Dual 10G SFP+ NICs
•NVMe
•USB 3.0
•Server will need to support 20-30 Users including 4K playback support - 4K transcoding is not allowed
I use Intel now, but am debating on switching to AMD, which offers better bang for the buck?
