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Has anyone here been able to find a Thunderbolt keystone jack? All I'm able to find are USB-C keystone jacks that cap out a 5gb speeds.

I'm running Unraid/Plex/PVR on my server and wanting to open up OrganizerV2/Overseerr up for them to login and manage requests amongst other things. I currently have it open via a port on my router, however I would like to have everything routed through NGINX Proxy Manager and enable a little more security so I can limit the amount of ports that are open on my router. Not to mention trying to explain to non tech savy family and friends how to goto a specific port to log in. Currently I'm setup through no-ip with a port 80 redirect. However I'm not able to get an SSL cert through that redirect. After doing some thinking I had an idea. Would it be possible to setup an Digital Ocean instance with pfSense and setup a VPN between that and my Unifi network? That way I could point my domain to the DO ip address and get my website routed through the VPN tunnel so my ISP wouldn't know what I'm doing?

I'm definatly not an expert when it comes to this stuff, but here's what I'm trying to do..... Trying to setup Organizr on Unraid/Docker and have it accessable from outside my LAN. I'm using Nginx Proxy Manager on Unraid as well. I have a small management portal setup at my work with the same containers and it is all working just fine. However we have the "business" internet plan that does Comcast is not blocking ports 80 and 443 there like they do at my house. No-IP has a port 80 redirect, so I have it configured to redirect port 80 to another port, my firewall is then grabbing that and sending it through to the proxy. However I'm having two issues at the moment. 1 - I can't generate any SSL certs with Let's Encrypt since No-IP doesn't have an API so I can generate one with an DNS challenge. I know Cloudflare will work with Let's Encrypt, however they don't have a port 80 redirect that I can find anywhere. Are there any DNS providers/Domain Registrars that will work with Lets Encrype AND offer a port 80 redirect? 2 - I have a subdomain setup that is getting to my IP address ok, but for some reason I can't figure out why its getting sent to the wrong place at my firewall Nginx is setup to point emby.myurl.com to my emby sever and somehow its getting sent the IP address of my Dream Machine Pro. These are on two seperate LAN IP's/machines. Are there any ways I can trace what is going on here to see where is getting directed in the wrong place?

I 100% agree, however at this point that is all he talks about when he sees mine. And I just have a couple of case strips and the AIO has some accent lighting.

For some reason, didn't even look up RX 480's Definitely think that is the route to go on the GPU. I was thinking of going with a 1660/1660ti/1660 super, but for what those are going for new, I would just get a used 1080 for 350ish. But again what he wants right now is to have the most flashy thing possible to show his friends. I'm pretty sure even with a RX480 he'd still have one of the best PC's amongst his buddies. Hopefully once GPU stock catches up with demand there will be a larger amount of 1080's & 1080ti's on the market next year for me to replace the 480 with.

Budget (including currency): $800 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, CS:GO, Minecraft, Rocket League for starters Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have my old Asus Z97-Deluxe, i7-4770k, 32gb ram, 850 watt PSU, and an 480gb M.2 laying around from my previous PC that I was saving to build him something for Christmas. He also has a "so-so" Dell 1080p monitor with a crappy $100 throw away PC that I scored used when his school went to remote learning. At 12, to be honest, he is more after the typical "RGB unicorn vomit" looks than raw performance so I'm thinking for starters I would concentrate on a decent 1080p setup in most games and set aside a decent amount of my budget on a fancy looking RGB AIO, fans, case, etc. Figure if I get some good things now, when he is ready to upgrade the rest he won't have to worry about cooling, PSU, storage, or case. Also when GPU prices/availability stabilize in the new year I will be pulling the trigger on a new GPU. I would then hand down my current RX 5700-XT and sell whatever I buy him now. Here's what I'm still needing to purchase/consider: RX 580 8gb - seem to be in the $175-$200 range used 1tb SSD for game storage Corsair 4000D Airflow Corsair H100i Elite Capellix AIO ML120 PRO RGB Fans (gonna fill every spot so he can go RGB crazy) Commander Pro - Might need this since the old MOBO doesn't have RGB headers? If I can find a good deal after getting the above items I might start looking for a better 1080p monitor with the leftover budget.

I migrated our network at work to Microsoft 365 off of our on-prem server. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I am far from an IT professional, but with a little research on my end I was able to pull it off with little issue. We were already paying for Office 365 so it was a no brainer as it was only a small amount more to utilize Azure AD and get off of the on-prem active directory. It was about time to replace the old server we had running anyways. I even setup the device management with inTune. So when someone tells me their computer is "acting weird" I just walk over there with a Windows 10 USB, wipe it, and when they login with their company credentials all of their programs/files/apps are preloaded and they go back to work. Takes about 20 minutes. We only have 14 workstations and 12 employees here so in all honesty it is pretty overkill.

60-70% of the time I might have my wife, myself, and my son watching Emby on the LAN, plus 1-2 remote users that would require a transcode. I have two Shield TV's and one FireTV. CPU usage stays in the 40-60% range during this. But of course I have the downloading speeds throttled so I don't overload everything until the middle of the night when it goes to full speed for about 4 hours. I haven't really dug much deeper into it since unraid is my first experience with Linux. One thing I noticed when I was putting together my server years ago was the fact that out of the 10 drives on the server only four are SATA3. Also, I am planning on throwing a couple extra SSD's inside the case and keep them as unassigned disks. I was hoping planning on making those drives my target for the download/unpacking/transcoding work and only move the files to the array once they are ready to be stored for good. Maybe that would help the speed of the array? I already have my metadata, cache, and transcoding working directories on my cache drive.

I might be complicating things, but my thoughts were to have two seperate systems in my rack. The build here would be pulling only NAS/downloading duties and a seperate box that only runs Emby. That way I would be able more taylor the hardware to what I'm trying to do on that server. If I put a GPU in the NAS I would most likely start to incorporate try to incorporate an H.265 conversion before the file is sent to my library to save on disk space, as well as start the process of converting what I already have stored on it to free up some space. There has been a couple of situations where someone has requested a series to be downloaded. With my internet speeds (gig fiber) they get downloaded faster than Emby can process them or unraid can move/unpack them (not really sure where the bottleneck is). Once all of them start hitting the Emby library that fast one after the other, and 2-4 people are logged in watching I have some pretty annoying buffering issues, especially on the transcoded streams. At the moment I've just throttled my downloader. My guess is that I have a combination of disk I/O and CPU, especially since unraid is always going to be a little slow on write speeds. I've been doing some reading and it does look like the 4770k is not really the best thing for transcoding compared to the newer Intel stuff. However my Z97 mobo and 4770k on the used market would pretty much buy a new 10th gen i3/mobo combo.

Thanks for reminding me about the GPU. Since I’m working in a 2u chassis looks like I’m limited to the gtx 1650 low profile cards. I’d have to look again, but I don’t think the rear panel has a way to mount a riser card for a full height card? Plus I’ll have the LSI controller in a PCI slot as well. For the time being this machine will pull NAS and Emby duties, however I am also putting together a new Ryzen desktop so I will have my i7-4770k/mobo for a dedicated Emby server if needed. I’d have the room for a 1650ti or used p2000 in the spare istarusa rackmount case I have laying around to take care of my transcoding/Emby duties that way. However I’m thinking I might give it a shot with just the igpu on the 4770k first.

I currently have a Supermicro SuperServer 6027AX-TRF-HFT (link) with dual E5-2680v2's running my Unraid setup. It's primary duty is Emby (along with all of the other "media management software") which my family/close friends log into on a normal basis. So on a semi normal basis I'm running 2-4 transcoded streams. I have zero performance issues with the current setup. My reason to upgrade is more for a power and efficiency standpoint. I usually idle between 5-10% CPU load which according to my UPS is 200 watts of power being used along with the associated heat being pumped into my storage closet were my rack lives. Once I get 2-4 people on that figure is closer to 350-450 depending on what is being transcoded. So I've been thinking of using my existing case and upgrading the board/cpu with something new. Here's what I've picked so far on PCPartPicker: PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/p4m8Dx CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($154.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9x65 33.84 CFM CPU Cooler ($49.95 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard ($149.99 @ B&H) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($119.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($89.95 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Noctua NF-A8 PWM 32.66 CFM 80 mm Fan ($15.49 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Noctua NF-A8 PWM 32.66 CFM 80 mm Fan ($15.49 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Noctua NF-A8 PWM 32.66 CFM 80 mm Fan ($15.49 @ Amazon) Case Fan: Noctua NF-A8 PWM 32.66 CFM 80 mm Fan ($15.49 @ Amazon) Custom: LSI 9201-8i (Purchased) Total: $626.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-27 17:25 EDT-0400 My plans were to only reuse the case, redundant PSU's, and SATA backplane. I would be replacing the existing server fans that scream bloody murder with the Noctua's. Does anyone else have a similar spec'ed setup? I'm just curious what I could expect in real world power consumption compared to what I'm using now. I figure under full tilt above part list with 10 HD's would still consume 300ish watts (PCPP is showing 204), however I would hope I could idle somewhere south of 100 especially when unraid spins down unused drives. Finally last question has to do with the Supermicro case itself. I see the SATA backplane has 10 SATA cables running to the MB along with 3 of serial connections. Would I be able to use the supermicro backplane without these serial connections? I'm hoping the are just there for hard drive monitoring or something of that nature? They are listed in the manual as: SCU-SGPIO 1 Serial-Link General_Purpose IO -Header for S-SATA Connections 0~3 T-SGPIO 1/2 Serial-Link General_Purpose IO Headers for I-SATA Connections 0~2, 3~5

Was browsing eBay and found this server.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL180-G6-Server-2U-2x-2-66GHz-Quad-Core-Xeon-12gb-DDR3-500gb-/381541116254?hash=item58d59f695e:g:eqgAAOSwzgRWuKby Read a couple of reviews and power draw looks like I would be in the 50-150 range vs no telling how much with the older Dell. Also found some others with a little lower end Xeon processors with a lower TDP on Intel's site. Would this be a little better suited for my needs? I'm just wondering how some of these Xeons with do with transcoding with Plex?

I have been trying to find some reading on how much power this thing will draw at idle and all I can find is what the power supplies are rated for. I figure if I am using unraid then it wouldn't be spinning the disks at all times and the load 99% of the time would be minimal. Would this thing still draw a large amount at idle or will I be sub 100 while its just sitting there?

I'm looking for move my storage to a NAS from my desktop. I currently have 6 2tb WD blue drives in there now for media storage and am using it as a plex server. ive always wanted to get into server and a local guy near me has quite a few rack mount Dell 2900's for $100 bucks. would I be wasting my time and energy with something like this? I've read where they can be a little noisy, however I will have it setup in a cabinet so noise will not be an issue for me. I figure if this would work I could upgrade to something a little more modern/power efficient after I wrap my head around this type of stuff a little more.

I would love to replace my old media pc with this unit! So....pick me!