Johnny G

Thanks for the heads up on that. As soon as I've decommissioned my existing TV server I'll have 3 more TV cards to play with, so I'll have a closer look at what I can do with them natively in Linux. I do really like NextPVR, but if I can gain performance without losing functionality, then as a software-performance-tester by trade it really makes sense to go that route. Thanks buddy.

Thread resurrection! I finally took the plunge and went unRAID. I went in at the deep end, and whilst it's a learning curve, it's a good one and I've learned a great deal about disk setup, Docker (love it!) and the whole subsystem within unRAID. Managed to snag a Supermicro 846, 2x E5645, 48Gb RAM, 48Tb storage. I've put some GFX and TV cards in, built a VM and I'm building it up, will be decommissioning my existing hardware soon. Still have a couple of PCIe slots to fill, so I'm looking at options I've also bought an 847JBOD setup for playing around in, it's a bare chassis which I'll get a 1U server to run via DAS. That's a new build and new thread though.

Thank you! That Octopus system sounds pretty good. I'll look into that a bit more. Just need to find a good motherboard and CPU combination that'd work in a server case, with as much RAM and storage as possible.

Hi, I'm a new user on these forums, but I've been watching the Linus Tech Tips videos for a long time now and I want to migrate to unRAID. But, I'd like some advice, pointers or alternative suggestions. So, my current setup is: 1x QNAP 4 bay NAS with 4x 6Tb disks. 1x Video editing/converter machine (i5, 32Gb RAM, GTX 960) 1x Torrent downloading instance (i3, 16Gb RAM, integrated GFX) 1x TV Media & Plex server (4x 4 DVBS tuners, 2x 4 DVBC tuners) So, I want to effectively put a 4U machine together in my garage that could virtualise the above machines and in addition, run a pfsense instance. My broadband cable feed comes in from the garage, my satellite feeds come in through the garage as well, so housing it in there, in a wall mount rack cabinet. I'll be mostly buying new hardware, so I need advice on what case would allow full height PCIe cards. I need 1, maybe 2 GFX cards, and 6 PCI TV tuners, I could go down to 5, maybe). I would like to increase my storage capacity significantly. Happy to hear your discussion and recommendations. Budget is around £4,000 GBP