IamSpartacus

How much transcoding do you need to do and what kind mostly (ie. Life transcodes and/or background transcodes)?

E5-2680v3: $275 used Noctua i4 HSF: $55 SuperMicro X10SRM-F: $285 Node 804: $50 WD Golds: $325each x 8 = $2,600 Optane 900p's: $270each x 2 = $540 Samsung Pro 950's: $350 total for all 4 (used) Micron 5100 Pro: $300 DDR4 RAM: $210 per 32GB x 2 = $410 Intel X520-DA2: $80 SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2: $50 ASRock Quad M.2 AOC: $100 EVGA SuperNova 650w PSU: $75 Noctua Fans: $20 x 5 = $100 TOTAL: $5,270 This wasn't all purchased at once obviously, it was gradual. Although I did purchase all 8 WD Golds at once last year. I'm also selling my Xeon D-1541 board (should net $850+ on that) that was in my server prior to this upgrade which should recoop a good chunk of the most recent upgrade which as the CPU, MoBo, Optanes, and 950 Pros.

I will add it up in a few. https://www.kitguru.net/components/cases/bill-smyth/fractal-launches-biggest-node-ever-with-the-804/

Of the upgrade or total? Anything that says "in place" was part of my previous server.

I'm at the physical limit for 3.5" drives. When I run out of space I will need to move to a larger case but that wont be anytime soon. I have a lot of media but I'm not a hoarder by any means. I will often delete unwanted media when I want to add large chunks.

I believe that is correct, it should be UDP and I manually changed it before adding this new container. LSIO, this is some great work. You guys are killers. I too am sticking with 5.9.x as 5.10.x looks like a $hit show thus far.

@bonienl Love the new syslog feature, it's fantastic. Now let me know if I should create a separate feature request for this but is it possible to allow the syslogs to go to a mounted Unassigned Disk? Right now the only available shares to send the syslogs to are those defined specifically in "Shares." Again thanks so much for this feature, game changer for me.

Upgrade complete!

New parts

Build’s Name: Spartacus Plex 4.0 CPU: Xeon E5-2680v3 Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRM-F Chassis: Node 804 (in place, still searching for short depth storage chassis) Drives: 8 x 10TB WD Golds (in place) Drives: 2 x Optane 900P 280GB 2.5" drives for docker appdata/high usage VMs Drives: 4 x Samsung 950 Pro 512GB NVMe drives for cache pool / Optimized Media Drives: 1 x Micron 5100 Pro 960GB drive for Downloads/lower priority VMs RAM: 64GB DDR4 (in place) Add-in Cards: Intel X520-DA2 10Gp SFP+ dual NIC Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova 650w Gold PSU Usage Profile: Main purpose of this upgrade it to give myself a little more transcoding headroom (Xeon E5-2680v3 should be about a 50% performance increase in this area) over my Xeon D-1541 while also giving me some extra vCPUs for VMs. Also adding a lot of high performance flash storage for VMs and docker appdata. I want to separate my Downloads from these high performance shares as I do a lot of downloading/extracting which can affect performance.

I will test this on both my servers this weekend.

After doing a hardware upgrade and subsequent restore of all my docker appdata, I'm having the EAC3 issue again where no files with EAC3 audio will playback unless I delete the Codecs folder. I remember this being an issue a year or two ago and I had to delete this folder after each PMS upgrade to get EAC3 files to work again. Does anyone know a permanent fix for this? I can't remeber what I did to get this working long term.

Backup/Restore Appdata plugin.

Thanks, this worked perfectly.

I had to restore my appdata using the backup/restore plugin and after doing so my letsencrypt container isn't working. I'm getting the following message over and over in the log: nginx: [emerg] PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX("/config/keys/letsencrypt/fullchain.pem") failed (SSL: error:09FFF06C:PEM routines:CRYPTO_internal:no start line:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE) EDIT: Recreating the container fixed the issue.