My problem: CPU maxing out, have 15tb of Linux isos I would like to have in a raid setup, I have an addiction to collecting data.
My current budget setup:
i5 7500 32gb ram 35tb storage 1070 for hw transcoding Windows 10
Running Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Qbit, various nodes for mining
My plan to upgrade:
Dell R720 (or R720XD 12 bay) Dual E5 2660 64gb ram? 8x 10tb drives?
I’m thinking of using truenas scale, running full servarr collection and qbit on it. Would like to run raid6? (i know its not a backup, but at least have some protection as some of my Linux isos were hard to find). I’d also like to set up an FTP on this server to make it easier to transfer files between remote locations. Will probably find more things to play with depending on unused resources.
Could upgrade storage further down the road with a md1200.
I would convert my old server to some undecided Linux and be dedicated to running plex and handling transcodes. Probably run a few low resource things on it as well such as nodes.
I want to play around with HA, but from my research, I’m probably better off setting it up on a dedicated machine so it isn’t effected by other resource heavy applications (i have a thinkcentre tiny kicking around that would be perfect for this).
Is this a bad idea? I feel the price is good considering future expandability. Is there a reason not to run truenas scale?
I want something that is expandable, low maintenance (Windows has been… windows), and remote manageable (Don’t want to sit beside my rack every time I want to make changes).
But the power draw is much higher and those servers are not exactly quiet. A single modern i3 is faster and comes with a great iGPU for transcoding.
And I somewhat doubt it will actually solve OPs issue. If the workload is too high for a 1070 just adding a bit of CPU will not help. I guess they try to transcode 4K HDR content. This needs either modern hardware or a lot of brute force (17,000 passmark score per stream)