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[PenguinMaster]

I have purchased this switch for my new home network. What Storage servers would work well with the 10GB Fiber link? Max Budget $500 including storage. I don't know very much about servers, but I think I will run Free NAS or some other type of free software.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you want to build a new server, or get a premade, or buy a used server?

 

How much storage do you want?

 

How much performance do you need? Do you care about iops and latency? What is this storage used for?

[PenguinMaster]

Buying Used is probably the only option, since I want 10GbE. I would like over 8 TB to start, preferably to be able to upgrade down the road. I am looking for pretty good performance (over 1GB/S). I am also looking for a server to run PLEX. Same performance for both servers, I would like to have 4K streaming capabilities from multiple users at once (5+ users)

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Chickenfans said:

Buying Used is probably the only option, since I want 10GbE. I would like over 8 TB to start, preferably to be able to upgrade down the road. I am looking for pretty good performance (over 1GB/S). I am also looking for a server to run PLEX. Same performance for both servers, I would like to have 4K streaming capabilities from multiple users at once (5+ users)

How much do you care about power usage? Buying used will use a bit more power, but it won't be horrible

 

Id get this https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL180-G6-14-Port-Xeon-12-Core-E5645-2-4GHz-12XTrays-16GB-DDR3-2xPSU/142666186891?hash=item213791408b:g:rkYAAOSwV0RXrkqd:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true

 

I have this model of server and it works well, kinda loud, but you can quiet it with reistors and it runs cool. That one has plenty of cpu power, and ram is cheap.

 

If you want freenas you want a hba instead of the raid card, id get a hba like this one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PERC-H310-6Gbps-PCI-e-SAS-RAID-Controller-HV52W/163205898125?epid=523570514&hash=item25ffd45f8d:g:3fsAAOSwM85bddZX:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true

 

Then get a 10gbe card like this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/MNPA19-XTR-10GB-MELLANOX-CONNECTX-2-PCIe-X8-10Gbe-SFP-NETWORK-CARD-W-CABLE/282378633999?hash=item41bf14030f:g:JwMAAOSwA65b4Iwa:sc:UPSGround!95014!US!-1:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true

 

Then put the drives you want it. 1GB/s is gonna be a strech, and you will probably need 8+ drives to get those speeds, and optimaze the network share config.

 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

Plex streaming depends a lot on the clients support.  If you stick to clients which support all your codecs natively, the server doesn't have to do much work at all.  If they don't, then transcoding comes in and 5+ users that's going to suck some juice, and at 4K that would be asking a lot.

If you are likely to have 5+ users trying to real-time transcode a stream a 4K file down to 1080p then I'm not sure if anything could handle that.