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Mine is primarily for Plex, but have been expanding video editing / rendering stored on this machine. The goal was reduce power and replace drives, cut out 8 hdd's and a processor and run 12 x 18TB To be honestly, I am now considering just running this setup for another year to see where AMD + Unraid end up.

I am running dual E5-2670v2's with 96gib ECC ram and 20x6TB WD Red in two vdevs. I am really just looking for less power consumption and more flexibility. I've lost all of my data once on FreeNAS with multiple failures. My Vdevs are RaidZ2 10 disks so effectively 4 parity drives to 16 storage drives. I can handle two concurrent disk failures per vdev. However FreeNAS is just such a steep learning curve and it's a pain moving from release to release with the Jails. I've setup friends in unRaid and it is so easy. My only concerns are really data integrity (bit-rot) and speed of opening files.

Not going to help this along, because I'm in the same boat. Running older gen dual Xeon on FreeNAS. Looking to make a change to unRaid for ease of use. Really looking forward to see how this thread develops. My goals are the same, upgrade to newer gen hardware but prefer enterprise reliability. Looking to expand to 150TB+, 4K UHD, ~10+ concurrent streams / transcodes (I don't allow transcoding of 4K). Would like to explore HEVC h/x265 for space savings which pushes me towards a need for GPU transcoding. Not really sure the best migration path for hardware, etc. while changing OS as well.

Thanks for all of the replies. I have never measured my power consumption, but with older Xeon E5v2's plus 20 drives always spinning, the heat it throws off (which I added a mini-split to help with) I have always assumed it was fairly high power consumption. My goal is really to take advantage of higher HDD density (fewer disks as mentioned above) and get a newer gen processor that allows me to take advantage of DDR4, keep the thread count up and still be more energy efficient. HW transcoding off a video card isn't a requirement, but from what I've read and seen if I try to focus on converting my media to x265 it might be required to keep the # of concurrent transcodes up.

Will the spin down cause a material delay in load times for media? I have a massive power / heat generating device in the closet and I really want to get more efficient across the board ideally without much performance hit.

I currently run FreeNAS and I am going to move to Unraid in an effort to get more energy efficient / hdd efficient. Currently running dual Xeon E5-2670v2 with 20 WD Red 6TB drives. Looking to do something more modern / energy efficient but with the same stability as enterprise grade. Also looking to add discrete GPU (e.g. P2000) to enable hardware transcoding. I am looking to start converting my 1080p library to H265 to reduce storage needs. Ideally I would be able to re-use by SC846 case, but not a requirement. My current server has about 80TB usable. I'd like to get over 200TB on less than 20 disks in the future. I have been looking at Ryzen builds due to efficiency/passmark scores, but moving away from Xeon stability has me concerned. Looking for some advice on a new processor / mobo combination that will be more efficient than what I'm using and allow me to move to Unraid. I don't have a budget really, but looking to for under $1k on mobo / processor combo.

I have been running FreeNAS for many years, most recently using dual Xeon 2670v2 processors. I think I am finally ready to move to Unraid for simplicity of management. I also want to start upgrading to HEVC / H265 files to reduce storage requirements. From what I have read utilizing hardware transcoding with a P2000 will be as good or better than my dual Xeon. Additionally I really want to move to a lower power / fewer HDD model. I currently use a Supermicro SC847 case with redundant 1350w PSU with 20 WD 6TB HDDs. I was hoping for some guidance. Questions: - Can I re-use this case with something like a Ryzen or will I have an issue with the redundant PSU? - Can I build a temp setup using onboard SATA to migrate to unraid then move into the SC847 using SAS? (Assuming this is a benefit of Unraid with the hardward change post build) - Are there other chassis (not Norco) that I should put on my radar if the ultimately goal is to start minimizing footprint / power?