Tybio

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  1. I have all Ironwolf drives: 8, 10 and 12TB. They are great and only had one failure (which Seagate replaced very quickly). They do have some "clicking", if you have a living room server that has tray-less bays (where the drive rests on the metal support frame) you might get some chunking. Not much worse than the WD Reds, but worth mentioning.
  2. I really like the looks of the 2600, it seems a great balance of heat, cost and performance. Most of the issues with Ryzen seem to be worked out, however there are still some threads every now and then about how well the Ryzen's throttle under light load, which can impact power/heat. That said, I'd think the delta is minor. This is my understanding of the trade-offs: Intel: Better idol power consumption Processors with iGPU can hardware encode with Plex More stable on the whole (Though becoming less an issue over time) AMD: ECC Ram More PCIe lanes (This is big for VMing with passthrough) Cheaper For myself, I'm trying to get my new Intel E-2176G in so I can do my upgrade, but I view this upgrade as likely a short-duration system with my eyes on the Ryzen/TR 7nm products late next year or even the refresh of them in 2020. The lack of iGPU is really the only down side to me, the power consumption delta isn't that large anymore and will likely tilt to favor AMD with the 7nm chips...
  3. On the mouse/keyboard sharing. Look into Synergy. I use it right now between my Unraid box, work computer and gaming rig. No extra wires etc. I'm considering merging the gaming rig into unraid, but without synergy I wouldn't even try :).
  4. Depends on a lot of factors, these boards CAN do more than the processor will let them. For instance, if I use the U.2 port or the second M.2 slot on the Super Micro board then I lose the x4 slot. If I use both of them then I lose M.1 and the x4 slot. I even lose some SATA ports in that setup. The key is to figure out what you need and then read the manual to see if you can get it all working given the way MBs will turn off some elements if others are used...and each board does it differently. As I went with the SM board, I used their recommended ECC Ram, linked on the SM board detail from the first page :).
  5. One note, you could use the 8 SATA ports on the MB rather than the second LSI card, that would let you fit 2x8 and 1x4. So you could make it work, it would just have no room for expansion and only one M.2 slot working (#1). I can confirm all of this when I get mine up and running, but that's waiting on the processor.
  6. Nope, the E series only has 16 lanes, that's the reality Intel gave the MB manufactures to worth with, not their fault.. If you are doing that, you should really look at the 2700x or even one of the 16 core TRs if you want ECC AND PCIe lanes. Intel will not let you have both without jumping to the datacenter level prices :/.
  7. Wow, it JUST changed, it was over $360 when it was in stock. As soon as it went to "Special order" the price dropped to what I payed. They are saying 11/21 for new stock.
  8. Fair enough, I didn't look that closely...I don't care what box it comes in! I just got off the phone with them, apparently the 2 "in-stock" 2176G they had are now sold, so it looks like I'll go back on the "parts on order" list and be stuck for another few weeks :(. I don't want to cancel the order as they /charged/ me 2174 prices (As it stands today) so I would be another $50+ out of pocket to get a 2176G from another vendor.
  9. I think I got shipped an OEM processor. That, or INTEL is really cutting back on packaging AND it is the WRONG one
  10. I would have loved 8 cores, might have gone with using a VM for my desktop...with 6 cores I'm just not sure I can do that. Likely I can, but it seems to me that it is borderline. The snow caused Fedex to delay delivery, so now it is even odds I'll not get it until next week :/.
  11. The point I was making is that if you install an SSD cache drive and see no change in write speed, then it is likely to be an issue with the network rather than the drive. It could still be a disk controller issue, but those are rare. Another test you can do is pulling a file from the server to another system, if that is slow as well then you have another data point. What motherboard are you using?
  12. Ok, it shipped and I should have it tomorrow! Can rebuild the server this weekend and update people on how it goes.
  13. Without parity, the cache drive would only help were it an SSD. Then you would just get the standard improvements of writing a file to SSD vs Spinner...so it could be massive, or it could be minimal depending on a lot of factors. For the app based dockers, this should not matter unless they are using heavy encryption. Hows your CPU usage when the server is active? I'd get a cheap small SSD for a few bucks and try it with it assigned to cache and not, One note to make is that the biggest factor in all of this is the network, you can isolate network vs server issues using the disk speed docker to test your disk capabilities, if they are nearly spec the it may be a network issue...which you would isolate using an SSD and seeing "no" improvement. Just my thoughts!
  14. cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "MHz" You can also play with lscpu, but the above always works on Linux.
  15. I think Intel is just starting shipments this week, but I have no confirmation of that...just a note from my vendor that they would receive them this week.
  16. Another review: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-e-2176g-benchmarks-and-review/
  17. 3) For AMD systems, if you want to use fast ram (and you do on TR) then I'd recommend going with the ram that's on the MB vendors QVL, Though that can be a tall order, I admit.
  18. Just got an update, they are now saying next week for shipping the processor
  19. Small update, all the parts are in with the exception of the CPU, just waiting for Intel to actually ship the darn things. Right now the ship date from the vendor is tomorrow, but I'm not putting a lot of stock in that :).
  20. Provantage says mine should ship tomorrow, I'll believe it when I see it. Also, the 2176G has 15 less TDP than the 8700k, which is a VERY nice bonus considering it has the same power.
  21. First review is out: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13526/intel-xeon-e-review-e2186g-and-more-tested Looks like the 2176G is a direct re-spin of the i7-8700k...with ECC but no OCing which is about perfect for a NAS running plex transcoding.
  22. I pulled the trigger and ordered from Provantage. The price was good and I figure it will show up at some point. If I don't hear anything in 2 weeks I'll likely pull the order and go with an 8700k, though I don't really want to do that.
  23. Still not order-able anywhere :(. Perhaps I should just go with an 8700k.
  24. I'm not an expert on the chips you mentioned, so I'll leave that for those who are. However, if you are considering Plex transcoding, the only real option for 4k content is the current generation intel iGPUs. I've not heard of anyone getting AMD addon card transcoding to work (Not that I've looked hard) and Nvidia is gimping their GPUs to prevent people from using them in encoding farms (2 streams only). The only "Easy" answer is an intel proc with the iGPU...there may be other solutions and I'm sure they will expand over time...but right now the transcoding options are amazingly limiting. I just mention this as it's "too late" for most people once they build around other requirements and then try to solve for transcoding