SirReal63

It worked exactly as it should. Prior to this I could not watch 4k movies at my desk from Jellyfin, I had to use my desktop computer and use VLC because Jellyfin would not play it on anything but the 4k TV.

Using Jellyfin, I gave up on Plex, our needs are basic. This is basically a learning experiment for me and I want to do it right. I appreciate the confirmation and assistance.

I am so glad to see this, so thank you to everyone who has worked to make this a reality. I am going to give it a shot and remove my Quadro card. I am using a Ryzen 5700G on 6.12.3 stable, I have added the rest of the instructions with zero difficulty. I do need help and someone to hold my hand. When installing the container the directions say "- At 'Device' at the bottom here in the template add '/dev/dri' " My assumption is "Add another port, path, variable or device" but I am more of a hardware person. Is that correct? While researching I see where others have added it in "Extra Parameters" but that seems wrong to me.

The RTX 2080 Super should easily handle any transcoding needs. I used a 9207-8i with zero issues but eventually went with larger hard drives and was able to take it out of the system.

How much cpu utilization do you use? You may be better served by going to fewer and larger drives. Running 18 drives and the associated hardware will result in higher electrical consumption, even at idle the drive hardware is consuming electricity. You also need to consider how long it will take for a 50 watt drop to be offset by the expense of getting a 50 watt drop.

Ryzen 7 5700G, X-470 Gaming Plus Max, 32 gigs Ram, 3-HGST 7200 rpm 8tb Helium drives, 2-HGST 7200rpm 4tb drives which will be replaced by more 8tb drives soon, 1-500mb NVME cache, 2-80mm Noctua fans, 3-120mm Noctua fans, an Icy Dock 3 bay cage. I run 2 active dockers, Agent DVR (which runs always and records farm activity) and Jellyfin. All drives spun up and dockers running, I idle between 66 and 90 watts per my ups. All drives spun up and dockers off I run at 60 watts All drives spun down and dockers off it runs at 30 watts Prior to the 5700G I ran a 2700X and a Quadro p400 and with all drives spun up and dockers running was about 135 to 184 watts. I direct play but audio would usually transcode. I dropped power usage and gained passmark score with just a CPU swap and removing the Quadro. I also removed my 9307-8i when I went to the 8tb drives so that helped as well. I almost never go above 20% cpu utilization except while loading a movie and that drops back to 10% or less almost instantly so in reality I could get away with a much less powerful cpu, you probably could as well, the 3900x wasn't really an energy efficient cpu just like the 2700x I used. If your cpu utilization remains low, turn off turbo I dropped the most watts by going to a newer architecture 65w tdp cpu over the older 105w tdp cpu but all of the changes helped. If you are transcoding a lot the Intel IGP makes sense.

I have changed hardware 6 times, MB/CPU/Ram/Case and not once had any issues. If the system worked correctly prior to a swap and different hardware is causing an issue I would suspect something bad in the new/different hardware. One the many beautiful things about Unraid is if the hardware works, so does the software.

2133 is where I would put it, it should work out the timings itself. That was a good board in it's day but I am not sure I would build a mission critical system based on it today.

I believe the highest supported memory speed for that processor is 2666. Turn off XMP would be my first suggestion, the board may support lightly higher memory but the R7-1700 really doesn't. Trying to push memory speeds can cause issues.

Replace the 2tb drives with larger ones. Either new or used, that is up to you and your budget. If your goal is to increase storage space the solution is to replace old smaller drives with newer and larger drives. Replacing drives in Unraid is about the easiest function there is to do.

Your system is already configured well, just the drives are too small. I started with 1,2 and 3 tb drives and now am using 4tb and 8tb HE drives. I have always used retired HGST 7200 rpm server drives but there is no shortage of 6tb and above drives out there. Your issue isn't hardware, it is storage, so swap out smaller drives for larger ones.

I have been using this one for almost 2 years now, it has been rock solid. The one you linked should also work just as well. I used it to keep from having a USB hanging out the back of the server, it made it just a little more compact. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YFXH5K9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You will need a video card of some type to setup the bios. After the bios is set up correctly you can run without a video card. You may need to (should) turn on HVM/AMD-V (virtualization) and IOMMU and I typically only allow USB to be seen as a boot device but as long as the USB is set to boot first you are OK. The new board will see a new CPU and require you to enter the bios, make whatever changes are needed and save. It is highly unlikely you will be able to setup the board/CPU without video.

It should be noted that the 5700G is a PCIe Gen 3 CPU and not a Gen 4. This will only matter if you want to run Gen 4 items as they will run at Gen 3 speeds. I run the 5700G on an X470 board and I absolutely love it.

It is good to learn more. For the longest time I had no temp readings, just fan speeds. Unraid detected the nct drivers so they are what I used. I can say I love this processor as opposed to the 2700x that it replaced. Faster, less power and heat and I have yet to put it under a considerable load.