Help building a server

[henriquearaujo806]

Hi

So i want a server and I'm undecided on buying a full server or build up one myself. What do you advise?

My requirements are:

• Dual CPU (Xeon or i5);
• Redundant power suply;
• At least 3 pcie lanes;

Thank you 

[FloRolf]

Maybe you should rather clarify what you want to do with this Server?

I am asking because dual i5's isn't a thing and dual CPUs is generally not something i'd recommend in a time where 16 core CPUs exist

for consumer. 

With 3 PCIe Lanes i guess you mean 3 PCIe 16x slots, right? 

Also, what's your budget?

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, henriquearaujo806 said:

Hi

So i want a server and I'm undecided on buying a full server or build up one myself. What do you advise?

My requirements are:

• Dual CPU (Xeon or i5);
• Redundant power suply;
• At least 3 pcie lanes;

Thank you 

These are very strange requirements. What are you using it for?

[henriquearaujo806]

So, im planing to run proxmox and then run some vm's, such like home assistant, plex, ubuntu server, jellyfin, pi hole, etc...

For the 2 CPU choice, its because i need to have good performance and a lot of cores, in order to allocate them to the vm's.

About the redundant power suply, I want that feature because i want to conect the first one on the grid and the second one on a UPS, for security.

I also want to have at least 3 pcie lanes (Yes, PCIe 16x slots) in order to add more equipment when needed.

 

Thank You

 

[Blue4130]

4 hours ago, henriquearaujo806 said:

So, im planing to run proxmox and then run some vm's, such like home assistant, plex, ubuntu server, jellyfin, pi hole, etc...

For the 2 CPU choice, its because i need to have good performance and a lot of cores, in order to allocate them to the vm's.

About the redundant power suply, I want that feature because i want to conect the first one on the grid and the second one on a UPS, for security.

I also want to have at least 3 pcie lanes (Yes, PCIe 16x slots) in order to add more equipment when needed.

 

Thank You

 

I think you are vastly overestimating what you think you need for cores. Vm's can share cores without issue. 

[Jarsky]

8 hours ago, henriquearaujo806 said:

So, im planing to run proxmox and then run some vm's, such like home assistant, plex, ubuntu server, jellyfin, pi hole, etc...

For the 2 CPU choice, its because i need to have good performance and a lot of cores, in order to allocate them to the vm's.

 

Absolutely no need for dual CPU, if you're using a decent enough CPU. 

 

home assistant, pihole, ubuntu (just the OS) are very low usage and can easily share a few cores. 

Jellyfin/Plex, if you have hardware transcoding then like 2 cores is enough...if you're doing software (CPU) then you can probably get by with 4 if its just a couple of transcode streams at a time. Outside of transcoding it really just needs the cores for transcoding audio, library scraping/metadata, and intro detection (plex)

 

8 hours ago, henriquearaujo806 said:

I also want to have at least 3 pcie lanes (Yes, PCIe 16x slots) in order to add more equipment when needed.

 

I assume you mean 3 PCIe slots

 

What is your budget for this server?

Since you're planning to run proxmox and run a media server, are you going to be doing ZFS or LinuxRAID? Or do you want a RAID card as well? 

How much storage are you after?

What's the point of redundant PSU's for a home hobbyist server like this? There are redundant ATX PSU's but theyre prohibitively expensive, so you'd really be restricted to enterprise server barebones/systems. 

Do you require a rackmount?