barndogusn

Hey, I'm running a PowerEdge t110ii on Unraid and thought I'd chime in. I'm not sure what CPU yours would have but regardless it will be mediocre for transcoding. I opted to upgrade my server Celeron to the i3-3220 which has a slightly newer revision of QuickSync for hardware transcoding, as well as a much better clock speed than anything else it normally comes with(plus HT). Should be fine for 1 transcode tho, but don't plan on doing anything with 4k. It's a great little server, and to answer your question it's about as cool and quiet as it gets. It's completely inaudible and runs very cool, as there's a thermal shroud over the cpu and memory like most servers. There is a total of 5 x Sata 2(3Gbps) ports available for Unraid that should be fast enough to handle most mechanical drives. I added a 5.25" hot swap bay, as there are only 4 internal spots for 3.5". It's an ideal unraid NAS as there are 2 internal USB headers to hide your boot drive. The one real drawback I've found is it appears to only support ECC UDIMMS, or unbuffered ECC, which is kinda rare/expensive. I had zero luck running non-ecc unbuffered memory, even with the i3. You should be fine with the included 8GB RAM, but there's one more thing to note about this server. It's biggest drawback is that it can only support low power PCIE graphics cards, there's a wattage limit on the slot... So don't plan on running dedicated graphics for anything serious, like HW transcoding. You could probably still pass-through video for other purposes tho. Holler if you need to know anything else.