It was Intel S1200BTL board with Intel® Xeon® CPU E31275 @ 3.40GHz and 32gb DDR3 ECC
It has 16 drives installed using to LSI card flashed IT mode. I am running FreeNAS 11 on the server. I have all my media storage on this server IE Movies, TV Shows, Photos and Music. The server also uses a 120GB SSD for the jails. All the media plugins are installed on this drive as well as Plex Server.
Just wanted to see if this CPU would work will for Plex. I am planning on having like 4-5 clients in house using the server but not all at same time I hope. Also maybe streaming to 2-3 ios devices. The in house clients are using Nvidia Shield TV or Samsung TV.
Streaming to all those devices won’t be a problem.
Transcoding to them, depending on how much needs to be transcoded, will be an issue. I have a comparable i7 CPU. I can transcode 2-3 streams concurrently. Three is the maximum number of video transcodes it can do for my media. If your media has a lower bitrate, you’ll have better resource availability. Audio transcoding is fairly easy and you should be ok with it… Just keep an eye on video transcoding. Don’t plan on HEVC 10 bit. That CPU does not have the ‘strength’ to do the job.
@ChuckPA said:
Streaming to all those devices won’t be a problem.
Transcoding to them, depending on how much needs to be transcoded, will be an issue. I have a comparable i7 CPU. I can transcode 2-3 streams concurrently. Three is the maximum number of video transcodes it can do for my media. If your media has a lower bitrate, you’ll have better resource availability. Audio transcoding is fairly easy and you should be ok with it… Just keep an eye on video transcoding. Don’t plan on HEVC 10 bit. That CPU does not have the ‘strength’ to do the job.
Anything is socket 1155 could use in this board that might handle HEVC 10?
