plex Upgrading plex server

[The...guy]

Budget (including currency): No budget future plan so cheaper will make me get it faster..

Country: Norway

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex, game servers (Minecraft, atlas, eco, rust, space engineers, unturned....), nextcloud, unify controller, uptime site, maybe steam cache. 

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): 
the main reasons for upgrading are that I need more space and the server is pretty loud so trying to find something that's more quiet. also my current system cant transcode anything (unless it's 1080 to 1080 for max 2 streams) due to no GPU.
 

My current setup:
ProLiant DL360 G7
Os: xcp-ng (vm then truenas) (info: didn't know what I would end up using so that's why I have 2 os while I only need 1)
Ram: 64GB (4x16GB) 2RX4 PC3-10600R
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon X5650

Storage: 1,6TB (600gb*4 in raid 5)

Maybe a new setup:
I watched the "I built this computer for Mark Rober", and started with this:
Motherboard: ROMED8-2T (https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=ROMED8-2T#Specifications)
CPU: AMD EPYC 7302P (or something like)
Case, ram, CPU fan, and storage: (https://www.komplett.no/wishlist/shared/423bc95e-3188-498c-9287-aebcd8689037)

I already have one of these, but I can't find any information if the motherboard supports PCI bifurcation, if not is there one alike I could use?: 
https://www.asus.com/no/motherboards-components/motherboards/accessories/hyper-m-2-x16-card-v2/


I also need a Psu and maybe a GPU for transcoding, but how much do I need?
I want this setup to be future-proof... so Imma start with 3 disks and add more as needed

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much transcoding do you need? How many streams and what res?

 

How many drives do you plan on expanding to?

 

That epyc seems pretty overkill here. If probably get something like a ryzen 7xxx or 13/12th gen intel as they use much less power, and there much faster processors than the epyc parts, and you don't seem to need any of the server features of that chip.

 

 

[The...guy]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much transcoding do you need? How many streams and what res?

 

How many drives do you plan on expanding to?

 

That epyc seems pretty overkill here. If probably get something like a ryzen 7xxx or 13/12th gen intel as they use much less power, and there much faster processors than the epyc parts, and you don't seem to need any of the server features of that chip.

 

 

Well I have 13 Plex users but I don't think more than 5-7 people will need to transcode at the same time, well I only download 1080p since that's what my current system can handle, so it's 1080p to 1080p, some original quality has some skipping problems fixed with transcoding

I can expand to 12 drives so it would be a total of 216 TB, but I don't think I will ever need more than 50 TB or something like that, but that's today I don't know what  I will end up needing.

If you say so, then that's great. I just watched the video and it wasn't really that expensive (other than the motherboard..)

have any idea of what motherboard I could use with a ryzen 7xxx or 13/12th gen Intel (and is AMD or Intel better/cheaper for this?)

[Electronics Wizardy]

24 minutes ago, The...guy said:

Well I have 13 Plex users but I don't think more than 5-7 people will need to transcode at the same time, well I only download 1080p since that's what my current system can handle, so it's 1080p to 1080p, some original quality has some skipping problems fixed with transcoding

1080p only is pretty easy to transcode, so you can probably get away with cpu only. 

25 minutes ago, The...guy said:

have any idea of what motherboard I could use with a ryzen 7xxx or 13/12th gen Intel (and is AMD or Intel better/cheaper for this?)

Depending on how much you wanna spend, I really like the asrockrack server board using am4/am5 or lga 1700. Then you get a igpu + ipmi for remote management, and there overall nice boards.

 

Price isn't that bad on the epyc chips, but there slower than the newer desktop chip, and use more power, so I don't see a reason to.

[The...guy]

55 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

1080p only is pretty easy to transcode, so you can probably get away with cpu only. 

Depending on how much you wanna spend, I really like the asrockrack server board using am4/am5 or lga 1700. Then you get a igpu + ipmi for remote management, and there overall nice boards.

 

Price isn't that bad on the epyc chips, but there slower than the newer desktop chip, and use more power, so I don't see a reason to.

What do you mean about  " igpu + ipmi "?

I need something that is somewhat future proof and if it has bifurcation would be really nice, like I'm buying 3 18tb disks for 13 167kr ( 1 310,12 USD), don't know how much ram I need but I added 128 GB to my cart, but that might be overkill. do you have any suggestions for motherboards that meet my requirements? (thanks for all the help! )

[Electronics Wizardy]

22 minutes ago, The...guy said:

What do you mean about  " igpu + ipmi "?

I need something that is somewhat future proof and if it has bifurcation would be really nice, like I'm buying 3 18tb disks for 13 167kr ( 1 310,12 USD), don't know how much ram I need but I added 128 GB to my cart, but that might be overkill. do you have any suggestions for motherboards that meet my requirements? (thanks for all the help! )

those boards have a igpu so you can use chips like the 5950x without a gpu. You can also use ipmi for remote management.

 

But any board that fits the cpu will work fine.

 

128gb of ram is way overkill, Id get 16gb to start here.

 

What os do you plan on using?  I'd probably go unraid as it allows for easy expansion here.

 

 

 

[The...guy]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

those boards have a igpu so you can use chips like the 5950x without a gpu. You can also use ipmi for remote management.

I looked at some motherboards for the 5950x (am4) and cant find any mentions of igpu or ipmi, can you recommend one or more?

 

 

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

128gb of ram is way overkill, Id get 16gb to start here.

yea probably, thing imma start with 32gb 1 stick, since then I have the room to expand to 128gb else imma do 1 stick 16gb (expand to 64gb)

 

 

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What os do you plan on using?  I'd probably go unraid as it allows for easy expansion here.

Im not familiar with unraid, maybe I will try it, just really used to truenas (using core atm, trying to move stuff over to scale...wont happen before I upgrade...)
are unraid and truenas really diffrent?

[Electronics Wizardy]

18 minutes ago, The...guy said:

I looked at some motherboards for the 5950x (am4) and cant find any mentions of igpu or ipmi, can you recommend one or more?

 

Look at this board. https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X470D4U#Specifications

 

Have on of these in a build, it works well.

 

18 minutes ago, The...guy said:

Im not familiar with unraid, maybe I will try it, just really used to truenas (using core atm, trying to move stuff over to scale...wont happen before I upgrade...)
are unraid and truenas really diffrent?

Yea the UI is different. Its just truenas is often a pain to expand, and unraid handles that much better.