Repurposing my ancient pc to a media server/storage server

[Cartridge]

Upgraded to a 5900x and 3070ti this summer. Decided to swap my old early gen i7 and ancient video card to a smaller case and run it as a media server for the house. My question is, would it be better when encoding old blu-rays and dvds to do all that on the new computer and then transfer it over the LAN to the server? From the little bit I've read, that encoding can take awhile on older hardware. Thinking letting the big boy do the heavy lifting and then just transferring it over might save time in the long run.

 

thanks

[LIGISTX]

4 minutes ago, Cartridge said:

Upgraded to a 5900x and 3070ti this summer. Decided to swap my old early gen i7 and ancient video card to a smaller case and run it as a media server for the house. My question is, would it be better when encoding old blu-rays and dvds to do all that on the new computer and then transfer it over the LAN to the server? From the little bit I've read, that encoding can take awhile on older hardware. Thinking letting the big boy do the heavy lifting and then just transferring it over might save time in the long run.

 

thanks

You could have the server auto transcode things every night (or day) when its not going to be used so its only doing it when no one would be using it.

[Kilrah]

New machine will be a lot faster and more energy-efficient at doing it.

[Cavalry Canuck]

9 hours ago, Kilrah said:

New machine will be a lot faster and more energy-efficient at doing it.

I’d also argue there is something satisfying about putting the LAN network to use that way.