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Hi LTT Form. I came and seek the wisdom of this community again. I recently just built a home server out of curiosity and wanted to experiment with different tech. Here are my hardware specs: CPU: AMD 8700G GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4060 Ti (The only one I found that can fit in the case, also powerful enough for my use case) Motherboard: msi mpg b650i edge wifi Memory: G.Skilll Flare X5 Series DDR5 32GB *2 PSU: Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold Bootdrive: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Hard Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 12 TB Case: JONSBO N3 The software I am running/ planning to run: Proxmox as the hypervisor OS TrueNAS (Thinking about switching to Unraid) Ubuntu 22.04 Server Windows 11 pro. Here are my use cases: Truenas (or Unraid) for storage. I am running RAIDZ2 right now and don't like the expandability TrueNAS offers. Ubuntu to run pihole, vpn service, website hosting, and probably some others. Windows 11 Pro (passthrough GPU to this) runs Plex and games to stream to my Steam deck via a Steam link or directly display on TV. Here are the problems I am currently facing: TrueNAS cannot perform SMART scans because some instructions are missing. TrueNAS gives about 20 checksum errors on all drives each day. Here are my thoughts on what may cause errors: I am not running ECC memory. I've read many posts saying the importance of ECC to ZFS, but there are also a lot of posts saying it's not an issue. I turned AMD expo on, and the overclock is causing the error bits. I want to fix these issues as well as maybe switch to Unraid as it offers to expand my storage drive by drive without TrueNAS's pool and dataset complications. Any idea if ECC is actually necessary? I don't mind redoing my build, but I want to avoid it if AMD Expo is the primary issue. I also suspect it's because I am booting using bios instead of UEFI. Will that be an issue?
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Anybody know the cheapest TFX PSUs that aren't bomb alternatives? I don't need the greatest PSU as it will be powering an extremely simple & not-too-regularly used plex server that has an old core 2 quad (like a modern Celeron/Atom). It's in a Gateway SX2800 prebuilt btw. (Edit: I found this PSU from Apevia, but I've heard that their reputation is kinda all over the place, some PSUs being solid, some makeshift bombs. Do you know if this is a solid PSU or makeshift bomb? https://www.amazon.com/Apevia-TFX-AP300W-Standard-Power-Supply/dp/B00LPTY2HM/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1YIPH87AIF4J1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.h2Uu_1g6sIEWJC3Bv7igMoDCvb7kQ2pOw51ugohiNjrcbxXM2XTNZNYK98_g7eBT0tfatNUMfZF8jHTflWDCLw.lTVGTElGI5YSNDNRjjzGfXXYfvEvotUtFEUmtACa8cA&dib_tag=se&keywords=TFX+psu&qid=1705021935&sprefix=tfx+psu%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-5)
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Budget (including currency): Sub $1000, ideally more like $750 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PLEX, Windows 11, and storage Hi folks! Long time LTT viewer, just joined the forum to get some direction. I know what I'm doing in terms of construction, but could use additional eyeballs on components for a relatively-budget home Plex server. Here's the PCP list, but highlights below: CPU: i3-10100 (w/ stock cooler and integrated graphics) RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200 MoBo: MSI B560M Pro-E - note: main PC on the network has a ASRock X570 Pro4, so ethernet file transfers are currently bottlenecked to 1gbps PSU: CoolerMaster 550W 80+B Storage: 256GB M.2 boot drive, 2x4TB 3.5in 7200rpm drives (RAID 1) I would love recommendations on the specs themselves, and also revs for cases (ideally with additional 3.5in drive bays) that have an understated, clean look and are easy to build in for someone with Giant orangutan hands. Cheers!
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i need some details an advice for these 2 used nuc's for both the lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Business Class Desktop https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PV4F3Q9/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza & Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny Desktop https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084X4JVNL/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza can the cpu cooler for either be replaced with a noctua low profile , an whats the max amount an speed of ram that can be added ?
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Budget (including currency): If possible, not exceeding US$ 275. But feel free to recommend a better value above US$ 275. Also, I don't know if US$275 is actually a realistic budget. The budget would only be accounted for the motherboard, CPU, memory, and PSU. I already have a 2.5" SSD and 3.5" HDD that would be hooked up to this new machine. I also don't need a new monitor, keyboard, mouse and other peripherals. The budget is just for the system minus the storage. Country: Indonesia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: - NAS - Plex Media Server - Home Assistant (HAssIO) - Home Surveillance Server - Light daily use like web browsing, microsoft office apps, etc. Other details: This server is going to run 24/7. So if possible, I want a machine that could run at less than 20 watts during idle, but would be able to run smoothly when Plex is transcoding to 1080p. Power consumption during peak load wouldn't be a problem, as long as it idles at a low power. I don't know if this is even possible, which is why I posted this thread in the first place. The new system doesn't actually have to be a built PC. If there's a barebones mini PC like an Intel NUC or and AMD equivalent that would fit my criteria, feel free to suggest it as well. If the better option would a mini PC, the HDD would be okay running in an external USB 3 enclosure. The power consumption of the HDD doesn't have to ba accounted for the idle power usage. Currently I'm running Plex Media Server and Home Assistant on an old ASUS Eee PC 1215P that has an Intel Atom N550. I use just because it idles at a low power, but it's very underpowered as a Plex Media Server. Also, I apologize if a similar topic has been posted before. If that's the case, please kindly direct me to that thread. Thanks guys!
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Budget (including currency): 500€ Country: Austria Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Record cable TV with a tuner card and make them available via plex server. 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): Lenovo H530s, Hauppauge WinTV-QuadHD Hey Guys. My plan is to use an existing Lenovo H530s (i3-4130; 8GB RAM; GT635 2GB) (https://www.lenovo.com/in/en/desktops/lenovo/h-series/h530s/) with a cable tuner card (https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_quadhd.html) to record movies/series and make them available to my existing TVs (LG WebOS) via a Plex Server. It would be nice if this PC could also double down as NAS for my other PC in my office. I want to upgrade with additional Hard Drives to run some kind of Raid for drive fail security. Since I'm fairly new to NAS/Raid and Plex my question is if it is that strait forward, or what kind of hoops I have to jump through to make this work properly. What operating system should I use? Is Windows fine, or should I use some kind of Linux? I guess unRAID would be a good guess? Is the System I want to use capable of doing this? Should I consider some other options? (e.G.: running the Plex-Server on a Raspberry Pi) What are my best options to remotely schedule recordings on that machine? Thank you all for your help! P.S.: This is my first post, so pls be kind. :D
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So I am hoping some of the experts on here can help me out with upgrading my home network I'm a little torn on how I want to proceed. As of right now I have the following equipment set up as per attached layout. Netgear Nighthawk AC3200 WiFi Router (R8000) = Serving as my router connected to the ISP gateway (Garage) Netgear Orbi Whole Home Mesh WiFi System with Tri-band – 2pk (RBK50) = Configured as AP's in office and great room With my ISP I have 1GB up and down for speeds and they stay pretty consistent. My house is setup with a lot of smart home features like Phillips HUE lighting, security cameras, and a home NAS I use for multiple things. While I am home I don't have too many issues, the Plex sever for movies is fine for streaming and my son and I can game online no problem. Now when I am away from home working and try to connect remotely that's when I'll see the network stumble a bit. Accessing security cameras, ring doorbell, and NAS for files transfers things seem to get spotty. From what all I have read up on it's possibly due to having so many different devices connected to WiFi 5 and upgrading to 6 / 6e should help with multi streaming and connectivity. Plus I have a Mother in Law apartment I have guests in that needs better coverage since it's a bit outside of the standard Orbi range. The ring doorbell seems to have a weak connection as well and typically drops intermittently in addition to recording audio with video (Which per their website is a weak connection problem). Which brings me to here and my quest for your advise and network knowledge. I have been looking at changing my currently scabbed together WiFi 5 router and AP's for either a full Wifi 6 / 6e mesh system like the; NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System (RBK853) – Router with 2 Satellite Extenders, Coverage Up to 7,500 Square Feet and 100+ Devices, AX6000 (Up to 6Gbps) Which I could put the router in the garage, the first satellite in the office, and the 2nd satellite in the Mother in Law apartment which should cover the Ring doorbell connection. Id' set these up with a dedicated wired backhaul since all these rooms have ethernet connections that lead back to the ISP box in the garage. OR Get away from the standard home kits and just get a Ubiquiti managed router and 3 of their WiFi 6 AP's. Network-Model.pdf
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Budget (including currency): Not sure, I want to be efficient, and I want to be able to accomplish my goals while also not needing to upgrade next year. Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 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): Here is what I am thinking so far https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MyqssL Goals •Learn containers & VM through networks, proxmox etc. •Actually have a NAS, rather then host Plex on my single gaming rig. Needs •VM of Ubuntu to host the following containers (but certainly not limited too) -Plex -Pi-Hole -Guacamole -Cloud (of some sort, using the TrueNAS storage listed later) -Torrent -VPN(hard maybe) -Home Automation -Generally anything else that I might find fun to mess with.. I am trying to learn, and thats kinda the overall goal of this build. •VM for TrueNAS •VM for windows Work PC. This is for privacy, so my work cannot spy on my day to day. I'd likely end up just guacomoleing this VM, then logging into it anytime I need to work. I don't want to add my windows account to my main rig. •VM for labs/fun/learning. Maybe I'll throw Kali, or Ubuntu on here. Who knows. This will be my for fun/experiment VM. mess around with various coding, containers, whatever. Lets break & rebuild. • Firewall Questions •Do I even need a GPU at all? I don't intend to do a lot (if any) transcoding with plex. My bluray rips are 4k with 80+ bitrate, and 100% of the time are directplay.. maybe a super rare time I might travel and want to watch, but I highly doubt it, it'd be nice to maybe have the option? •If I do need a GPU, and I passthrough the GPU to the VM hosting the container of Plex, then will that effect proxmox? I know that once you pass through a GPU that the main machine can no longer use it. Which is fine since the server will be running headless. BUT if I run AMD, and it has no onboard chipset... And the GPU is in the VM, then will that screw me over on proxmox? not really sure about that part. •anyone have experience with ebay HDD's? Found a surplus store selling 10TB drives at 50% of the price. Its really really really tempting. If I run Raidz1, maybe I'd be ok? •Is 1 TB of NVMe good for proxmox hosting various machines that I have listed. I think it should be.. Was thinking that if I ran out of space I could simply get a 2nd 1TB NVMe drive and that should be fine. I wanted to stick with NVMe for holding the VM's for the speed. I feel like I might be over building this rig, and I know its very easy to over build and spend too much. Really any advice would be appreciated. (the end goal would be to make my current gaming rig, i6600k & 1060ti my HTPC, that will essentially be a client slave for plex/kodi/Stream remote play. Use the server to host all of my media files & VM's. Then build a new gaming rig in the next year that plays all my games, then remotes them over to the client..)
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High-performance home server/workstation build Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and the whole PC building stuff, therefore excuse my novicehood! First of all, do you think it is even a good idea to build a two-in-one home server and a high-performance workstation or am I better-off building two separate machines? Below are details about what I have in mind for this build, I appreciate your recommendation in the question marks area or anywhere else for that matter. Uses: Fast NAS Photo editing Powerful Media server – 4K movies, Dolby ATMOS and DTS: X audio encoding Media streaming over the home network Maybe occasional AutoCAD and 3d Max OS and Software: UnRaid Virtual Machines (Win10, maybe MacOS or Linux just for fun!!) Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop PLEX server Hardware: CPU: Intel Xeon? iCore? or AMD EPYC? RYZEN? Motherboard: Supermicro? or ASUS? Model? RAM: Min 32Gb Brand? Reg ECC? Cache Disk: Min 512Gb PCIe? M.2? NVMe? SSD Storage: Min 12Tb - 3x 4Tb WD Red? GPU: ?? Network: 10Gbit and WiFi Case: ?? Cooling: ?? Power Supply: ?? Others: ?? Budget: I am not sure what is a reasonable budget for the above? Is $2,000-$2,500 sound reasonable? Anyhow, I am a bit flexible as far as the budget concern. Thanks in advance, and looking forward to your suggestions.
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Hello, My NAS, i built to essentially be a PLEX server, isn't booting. It will post and i can get into the Bios, but that is all. If i just let it boot up it'll go to a black screen with an underscore there and that is all (this comes up after the post screen). It is running FreeNas. I am a noob when it comes to fixing computers and the like, I appreciate all of your help. Thanks, Robert.
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Hello everybody, I'm looking for help and suggestion for building a better plex server and a plex player capable to play 4K,HDR content and support 7.1 surround sound (DTS-HD, DTS-MA, etc) My actual setup is decent but I'm having some issues with high audio quality: PLEX server: Lenovo M900 i7 6700-T, 32 gig ram Main Plex player: TV: SONY android TV XBR-55X700D with the PLEX installed Audio/Vidéo receiver: SONY STR-800 DN I have a PLEXPASS The TV and the a/v receiver is connected througth HDMI (ARC). The stream is going throught my smart TV and the audio is streamed by my A/V receiver. I can Play HDR and 4K content with 5.1 surround sound (DTS 96/24, DTS Neo:6, DTS decoder, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-ES decoder, DTS-HD decoder, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby TrueHD) perfectly. But if I Play HDR and 4K content with 7.1 surround sound (DTS 96/24, DTS Neo:6, DTS decoder, DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS-ES decoder, DTS-HD decoder, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby TrueHD), the video stream lag, the audio is unsync and ultimately the stream stop. I Know that the high bandwith audio content is not supported on TOSLINK and the ARC port has the same limitation. I would like too know what kind of player I could build to be able to play high resolution and high quality audio. I'm on a tight budget and I don't want bulky HTPC Thanks
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I have a plex server that I have movies on, I use my phone, apple tv and console to stream movie in the home. If i am not home like at school or visiting family and i want to remote access my Plex server, do i need to install A VPN on the server? Or can i just stream from my home server without ISP sending warning emails?
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Greetings LTT forums, I'm looking to build a cheap DIY build for a Plex server or to possibly buy a Nas if that would be cheaper. I've looked around and seen quite a few cheaper 771/775 motherboards around so if that is the best option I'd go with that. In the UK we have a site called CEX which sells dirt cheap CPUs, ram and drives so buying those there is probably the best option. I'm looking to spend the bare minimum for an enjoyable 1080p streaming over the network never over internet with a maximum of 2 users but predominantly used by only one user. I don't really need to use the system on storing anything rather than my Plex media content. Thanks!
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I'm about to start building my first home theatre PC. I've built a lot of pc's over the years but this is a first for me. My first ever online build log as well. Let me start by saying I'm a long way from the standard of a lot of the builds you see here, while I'd love to build something truly awesome, that'll have to come in the future. Right now planning on a neat, clean functional build with what I think are some sensible components to create a media server running PLEX and at the same time perform some light gaming duties as and when required for those games that suit the big screen. Another first for me (well, since the days of 80x86 architecture anyway) this is an AMD build. I picked up an ASUS Ranger Crossblade motherboard running the AMD A88X chipset with the FM2+ platform. I chose this for 2 reasons, got the board really cheap, the CPU's are cheap (especially the non APU variety) and I don't need an i7 for this build and it has 8 SATA ports. I couldn't find an intel board for under about $400 that came with 8 SATA ports. Speaking of hardware this is the build: Case: Silverstone GD08 HTPC Case (room for up to 8 drives) Motherboard: ASUS Ranger Crossblade CPU: AMD Athlon 880k Black Edition 4.0/4.2 Ghz WiFi Card: ASUS PCE-AC56 Dual Band PCi-E Adapter RAM: GSKILL 8GB x 1600Mhz Graphics Card: ASUS Strix GTX 950 2GB SSD: Corsair 120GB SSD for OS HDD: 2 x HGST 4TB NAS Drives, 1 x 4TB WD RED Drive (only 12TB to start with.. :-)) Power Supply: Seasonic G-650W Modular Power supply OS: Windows 10 At this stage I'm going to see how I go with the cable management, if you've looked at this case at all, you'll know it's tight. If I'm not happy with it may well splash on some custom cables from cable mod to make life easier and keep the build neater. Will have some photos of components etc to post soon.
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I run a plex server off of my desktop in my room. I have a two terabyte hard drive that I store all my content on. This isn't really a great solution, as it doesn't provide me any backup for my data, and It is also sometimes slow because the hdd isn't server grade(it likes to stop spinning and takes awhile to start up again). I was looking into a network attatched storage device. I don't know how much storage I will need but I want at least 5 TB's. I also don't know if I want to go with a pre-built solution, or build my own. If I build my own I would like to know what operating system to run on it, and I would also like to know what hardware would make a really good entry level NAS. edit I'd like to be able to put oodles of drives in the custom one if I build my own, just for further expansion If I need it.