I’m curious on input for the following scenario.
Right now I have plex running in a VM, pulling from various network resources to make up the complete music and video library. Server is a Dell R710, more than enough memory and CPU space to handle the plex VM without being detrimental to the other VMs running.
Overall it seems to work ok. When trying to sync various movies or use MCEBuddy it does peg out or have a really slow converting time.
Would be nice to have the Intel QS capabilities, but if I were to really go for it I’d probably aim for a current model Dell or HP but of course that involves a couple hundred $$$. I’d aim for a mini tower or something I could add in at least a few internal drives to consolidate all media onto it.
The other option I have is to use a Dell R410 server that is currently unused. Dual Xeon, I think 32GB ram. That obviously wouldn’t have the Intel QS option either but it would have a boatload of raw processing power. it is a 4 3.5 bay model, so I could easily stick in 4 4TB drives and be quite content for space.
Aside from it being a beast to run, would anyone thinking there would be enough gained by moving to the R410 or just leaving plex run within a VM?
That’s not a boat load of processing power. Even a single socket Core i5 has nowadays more speed (and is better suited for Plex, because it has a much higher “single thread rating” and has QuickSync.)
What are the precise model numbers of the Xeon CPU’s in your machine?
That is true. Guess I’m still thinking of older days with Xeons were a decent powerhouse compared to some of the desktop chips.
Unless I changed the proc, it shipped with X5506. It’s been a few years so I don’t quite remember exactly, but I think I just matched the 5506 and bought a matching pair to make it a dual setup.
The performane of these can only be called “pathetic” nowadays: PassMark - [Dual CPU] Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz - Price performance comparison
Particularly when considering that they have 2x 80W TDP.
These are nowaydays outperformed by a Core i3 and even by an Intel Pentium G (not the same class of cpu when Intel used the name for the first time 
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well dang. for what I had it for initially it was more than enough, but I guess current needs have obviously far surpassed this relic.
Not exactly shaking extra money off the trees, so I was hoping this would give a slight boost before actually buying a newer machine, but I guess not.
Like I mentioned before, everything still works ok in the VM enviro, so it’s not like I’m loosing anything by keeping things status quo.
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