Friend selling his older server - how does this look?

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Hello, my friend is selling his older Plex server (without drives) for £120. How does this look to you guys:

Case: CoolerMaster Elite 130
PSU: Corsair CX430
CPU: AMD AM1 5350 Quad Core (not overclocked)
Motherboard: Asus AM1i-A
Memory: Hyper X 8GB
Drives: Not Included
OS: Not Included.

I was considering the WS My Cloud thing but this is significantly cheaper.

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A lot will depend if you are going to transcode video.

Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark scores are a good guideline for a requirement:
1080p/10Mbps: 2000 PassMark
720p/4Mbps: 1500 PassMark

CPU: AMD AM1 5350 Quad Core (not overclocked) - Benchmark Score: 2565

So with that processor you could only transcode, 1 1080p Video at a time.

Of course if you plan on direct playing everything, the above does not apply.

As for the price

CoolerMaster Elite 130 - 39.99 - Newegg.com
Corsair CX430 - 39.99 - Newegg.com
AMD AM1 5350 Quad Core - 42.99 - Newegg.com
Asus AM1i-A - 44.00 - Ebay.com
Hyper X 8GB - 55.00 Newegg.com

Total 221.97

Really its up to you if you think its worth it or not.

3

the cpu is good enough to transcode one 1080p stream, but my main concern is the case. It only has space for 3 HDDs. If these limitations are not a problem to you, then by all means go ahead and buy it. The good thing it that the cpu is very low consumption. Will this be working as a server/player combo, running a desktop os, or as 24/7 server (maybe running xpenology?) ?

4

I see, it would be a 24/7 server replacing my gaming PC, which I’m sick of leaving on so sounds like it may not be worth it.