Kobach23

Also interested in this.. I got a 3950x a few months ago and have an H115i w/ Noctua fans on it. Generally idle 50C-65C (this thing can jump 10-20C while idle) and I'm new to AMD from Intel. Definitely something wrong with my H115i sometimes because percussive maintenance can drop the temp if it's idling like 70C+.. custom loop is coming in later this week. Does this chip just run super dang hot? Custom loop is going to have at least an EK-CoolStream SE 480 on the CPU. Worried adding the GPU into the same loop would actually heat it up as it normally idles about 33C (Asus RTX 2080). Also plan to try and recycle the radiator from the H115i (because it's so dang inconsistent I accept the entire thing might just be screwed if I cut the built-in hose). Thanks in advance for any advice. Happy to post more specs if anyone needs them but very curious about this processor.

Nice, I'm a bit surprised it has 8 drive bays but I think that adds a lot of value to a 1U server. Also I don't want to rain on your parade but I think it might just be that it supports two processors. Given the picture one of the sockets looks empty... I highly recommend the cache server. I setup a VM with about 500GB of SSD storage and it works fairly well in my household. Maybe start with virtualization and make a cache VM as well as a VM for development?

For 100TB of storage I'd definitely start looking at professional solutions (45Drives or whoever) because that's going to be tedious to design/rig with home gear or store-purchasable equipment. If you like the challenge then by all means go home build. Professional or home built I imagine most of your funds are going to go into the drives themselves. 6 transcodes isn't a whole lot, but what matters is the quality you're transcoding to. I have 200down/10up internet at home personally so I keep my Plex set to transcode like 720p 4mb/s to try and allow decent quality while still having a number of streams going. 6 transcodes of 720p wouldn't be super hard for me as long as I contacted my ISP and upgraded to 400mb/20mb to accommodate the extra upload bandwidth needed. If you want do something like 6 transcodes of 4k source material to 1080p that'll take quite a bit more processing power. Part of the reason I fall on professional being they can ask all these questions and define better answers depending on their products and your needs. Hope this helped some.

I have a different LSI MegaRAID but they all function relatively the same. I believe to get mine to recognize in the system I had to install the drivers first and then reboot. Once it's recognized you should get a Ctrl+H (I think?) option to configure in a BIOS section while your PC boots. If you see that you don't have to configure there, you can then go to your OS and install the MegaRAID Storage Manager utility and proceed that way. Hope this helps.

Another thing to consider is can your internet handle streaming 4K? I'm on Spectrum with 200mb down / 10 mb up and I keep my Plex by default at 720p 4mb/s streams to try and allow multiple streams at once. I believe users can manually override this and select higher qualities but you might physically hit a limit with mid grade 1080p and not be able to stream higher. I think enough other people have covered the codecs and file formats so I'm leaving that part out but I agree. Most media I have is .mkv and most devices in my experience (TVs, phones, tablets, etc) can't receive that so it has to be converted into something readable. Hope this helps.

I'd check your router connections and see if you can match any port labels to the names listed here. They honestly don't make much sense to me. That being said if you choose the wrong one as long as you aren't forwarding port 80 or 443 it shouldn't hurt your setup to have the wrong WAN port indicated. Wouldn't be hard to choose one, setup your port forwarding rule (say 21 for a local FTP server) and use canyouseeme.org or a similar site to check if the port you're forwarding is externally accessible and everything's working. If it is then you have the correct WAN port and I'd save that for future use. Cheers.

Based on my experience you could add the laptop drive and not notice a loss in speed depending on what you're using the storage for. Say you have 2x matching model number drives (3.5in, 7200rpm) and 1x laptop drive (2.5in, maybe 5400rpm). Striping data across all three drives will make the array run at MOST 5400rpm but it'll likely be a bit less for overhead. This being said you'd normally pick a RAID0 for speed or total capacity so adding the third drive would make sense if you wanted the capacity more than the speed. With a 120GB SSD cache I would toss the laptop drive in there because you'll likely only interface with the SSD as it's caching capability will likely make it so you never see the array's real performance. Unless you copy over 120GB before it clears to the array. The failure point is worth noting. See previous statement about what you're using storage for to make your own decision. Striping means no parity or backup, if one drive dies they all die. I like HD Sentinel for checking drive health and I've had one 2.5in drive actually fail in my experience (Seagate if you're wondering). Fortunately it was a 1TB RAID1 for developing VMs so no data was lost but the rebuild took the better part of a day. Hope this helps, honestly if you're doing nightly backups and not doing anything super critical on it I'd do the three drives together. Sounds like a good setup for a LAN cache maybe. Cheers.