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[Matt1309]

Question: Is this overkill/underkill hardware for my uses. Is there a better build for the price?

 

Uses: NAS, NVR (~4 cams), Plex, simple website/ databse usage, simple servers, contacts/calender. HTPC/transmission daemon (running in vm with VPN). tvheadend tv recording

 

Cost ~$1700

Hardware

case Corsair cc-9011030-WW carbide series air 540 atx high airflow (is there anything better than this)

intel xeon e3-1230v5

asus p10s-m WS board

750w power supply

1200watt UPS (do i need this?)

16GB ecc ddr 4 kington KVR24E17D8

 

noctua NH-D14, Premium CPU Cooler with Dual NF-P14 and NF-P12 Fans (Brown)

Asus nvideia PH-GT1030-02G 

4x3tb WD NAS HDD

Cheap SSD for boot. 

a pcie dvb-t2 card (undecided on this so far)

[Salacious B Crum]

What os are you planning to use the passmark score is decent you should get close to 5-6 streams with Plex I would definitely get the UPS if you plan 24/7 operation

[Electronics Wizardy]

Look at ryzen if you want new, a good amount faster for the price.

 

The cooler is way overkill, stock cooler will be fine here.

 

Why e3 v5? Thats last gen, if you want cheap, get older though.

 

Id look at used dual xeon systems aswell.

[Salv8 (sam)]

On 1/21/2019 at 12:16 AM, Matt1309 said:

1200watt UPS (do i need this?)

no not really, it's good to ensure that the server will safely shutdown in the event of a powerless and will even protect the server from sudden increases in power (power station producing to much power) and brownouts (so much power is being used that devices have to lower their performance to ensure that they don't suddenly shut off)

[Matt1309]

On 1/20/2019 at 9:46 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Look at ryzen if you want new, a good amount faster for the price.

 

The cooler is way overkill, stock cooler will be fine here.

 

Why e3 v5? Thats last gen, if you want cheap, get older though.

 

Id look at used dual xeon systems aswell.

I really don't know AMD cpus very well, any advice on something that's similar to the e3 1230v6 (my bad for saying v5). Potentially a stupid question but do all AMD support ecc? 

I did look at going old second hand cpus but finding an affordable motherboard with pcie slots so i can use it as a HTPC and install TVtuner was difficult. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, Matt1309 said:

I really don't know AMD cpus very well, any advice on something that's similar to the e3 1230v6 (my bad for saying v5). Potentially a stupid question but do all AMD support ecc? 

I did look at going old second hand cpus but finding an affordable motherboard with pcie slots so i can use it as a HTPC and install TVtuner was difficult. 

Do you really need ecc, for a home server, you probably don't.

 

Something like a ryzen 1700 supports ecc and will work fine.

 

 

[Scheer]

There are compromises with the T30 compared to your config, but with how much cheaper it is I would go this route and upgrade the RAM: https://slickdeals.net/f/12641947-dell-t30-with-e3-1225-v5-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-for-309

Goes on sale for $300-$320 about once a month. Add in the extra 8GB of RAM if you need it. Another ~$500? for your HDDs/SSD/capture card, and you are still about half the cost for barely any less performance and you get a nice warranty with it and no hassle. The case layout does suck, and its not a standard power supply connector making a replacement harder to find/more expensive... but that much savings seems worth it IMO.

 

I was doing about everything you want to do minus the NVR on the older Lenovo TS140 version of this with the e3-1225v3 and it handled it fine. I did eventually move everything but the NAS part over to a more powerful server when I consolidated all VMs to two hosts, but that was mainly because I have several 4 and 5MP IP cameras and they really eat the CPU, only 4 cameras would have been fine.

 

As for the HTPC part, if it is solely for Plex I would grab a cheap Mini PC and install Plex Embedded. The 2.0 Beta currently doesn't run worth a crap on a Chromebox, but its looking like they will have that sorted out and an official version soon as the Beta releases are picking up. For the time being the Embedded Official release runs fine and I've direct played 40mbps movies on a $100 Asus Chromebox no problem, its just about a year being the other Plex clients, so the old old UI. The Beta just has a bug in the UI where it will use 100% CPU on 4K output, but drops down when you play something. The nice thing about the Chromebox is that I used to dual boot between Plex and ChromeOS so you'd have a browser on your TV when you wanted to play random stuff from the internet.

[hooraah]

It seems like overkill to me.  I run Emby, storage for my security cameras, a few VMs, and backups on an I5-3570K.  Emby also records 2 TV tuners.

 

I have a lot of users on emby, but most are direct streaming and not transcoding.  The ones that do transcode use the intel quicksync and it keeps the load off of the main cpu.  Even still, the most I'll ever see at once is around 4 streams, which it can handle fine.

 

The UPS is definitely a good thing to have when you are serving video to remote people.  95% of my UPS benefit comes from momentary power flickers that would cause the PC to reset, but don't go on for minutes.  Make sure your modem and router are plugged into it as well.  I use a 350W unit and it doesn't last for very long, but its very useful.