# Building new server. Thoughts on build? Please! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545 "2019-10-30T20:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bove11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@bove11](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bove11)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/1 "2019-10-30T20:22:12Z")
I am building new server. Rapidly approaching data capacity (8TB). Have about 8 users. Too bad cant force direct play. simultaneous streams Average - 3 Most - 8 [https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HpcPsk](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HpcPsk) Is this overkill? Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/2 "2019-10-30T20:23:58Z")
[FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage | ๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š›๐š–๐šŠ๐š๐šŽ๐š—](https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/freebsd-enterprise-1-pb-storage/) Go big or go home! ๐Ÿคฃ ---
**Author:** ![bove11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@bove11](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bove11)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/3 "2019-10-30T20:27:01Z")
$65k? ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/4 "2019-10-30T20:28:16Z")
Only if you buy all the drives up front. But yeah, crazy. ๐Ÿคช ---
**Author:** ![scodd\_yahoo.com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@scodd\_yahoo.com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/scodd_yahoo.com)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/5 "2019-10-30T20:40:58Z")
Iโ€™d go with a 9700k or a 9900k or a new AMD. With an AMD you will have to pick up a video card but the cpu cooler is included. That is an awful lot of disk space. I would one more HDD and run two RAID1s. My plex server is running a 3930k with a number of 4 and 2 TB RAID1s and 4 channel OTA tuner. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Incorporated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bear\_Incorporated](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Bear_Incorporated)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/6 "2019-10-30T20:46:52Z")
Seems a bit overkill to me. If you are only using it as a Plex server, you really donโ€™t need 32 GB of memory or a 500GB SSD (assuming it is only for the OS. ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/7 "2019-10-30T20:51:58Z")
more ram is good if one wants to use RAM for transcode temp files also, 500gig can quickly fill up with video and chapter previews. better to overkill/over-budget, than under-budget and have to waste time/money upgrading again even sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Incorporated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bear\_Incorporated](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Bear_Incorporated)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/8 "2019-10-30T21:01:45Z")
Iโ€™ve never used video and chapter previews, Iโ€™ve never really understood the purpose. Iโ€™d personally, assuming money matters to you, just buy 2 sticks of Ram, and add two more later if you need it. How do I get my server to โ€œuse RAM for transcode temp filesโ€? Iโ€™m currently transcoding two of my videos from 32mbps to 20mbps, and plex is only using 2GB of RAM. ---
**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/9 "2019-10-30T21:11:09Z")
it depends on your OS with linux you can generally just use /dev/shm which a tmpfs ram drive that uses 50% of installed ram. on windows you would need some kind of ramdisk program to create a virtual temp drive > [@Ram drive or SSD for transcoding?](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ram-drive-or-ssd-for-transcoding/465730): > > I have several SSDs laying around, but I also only use 21/64 gigs of my DDR4 PC3600 memory. Would it be better to use a ram drive for my transcoding directory, or one of the SSDs? (I already have my Plex Data Folder on another separate SSD all by itself, and Plex is installed on another separate OS SSD as well) ---
**Author:** ![bove11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@bove11](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bove11)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/10 "2019-10-30T21:37:54Z")
will be using w10 pro ---
**Author:** ![tarasack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@tarasack](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tarasack)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/11 "2019-10-30T23:02:29Z")
It is possible to get windows to transcode in a ram drive. My experience on debian VM with 16gb RAM was that a dev/shm temp transcoded anything i threw at it fine in RAM, but struggled if I was using DVR to record HD films or more than 3 streams - I think there needed to be enough ram space (?default size was half the RAM) to cache the whole show before it was saved. Iโ€™ve seen workarounds, but none worked well for me. I dont know if Windows would fair better. Iโ€™m interested if anyone has a way to allow several HD films to be DVR recorded in full to a /dev/shm ram disk, short of using 32gb plus memory (allowing 16gb ramdisk) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-new-server-thoughts-on-build-please/483545/12 "2020-01-28T23:02:31Z")
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