Hi All,
after spending months browsing the forums and reading what feels like thousands of threads i thought i would put all my questions and assumptions into one thread with the hope that someone will be able to help!
So I'm currently using a T710 with 2 quad-core Xeon's (can't remember the model numbers off the top of my head) 48gb of ram and a mix and match of drives in basically all raid 0 (i know i hate it too) running plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Ombi and Nzbget within a server 2016 VM. I'm looking to move to a rackmount setup (mainly cause i have an r710 sitting spare - The joys of working in it) along with a move to Unraid!
However herein lies the beginning of my questions:
The R710 has a perc6/i in it at the moment, i know i need to change this to an H200 however has anyone managed to get this to work in the r710's storage slot with it being able to pass drives through to Unraid?
Next, is I'm needing more physical space and have found a cracking deal on a NetApp Ds2246 with 24 600gb SAS drives so i know I'm going to need an external HBA, however, what's the best one to use with this config and will i need to flash the external adapter to IT mode/IR mode also?
Next for my Unraid questions is for the actual docker side, I've never really dived much into Linux in general so the full docker side of things is still confusing me, my current setup is relatively automated, i tell Ombi or Radarr/Sonarr what i want and it goes and finds it and does all the downloading, moving and renaming for me. has anyone managed to get this working on the Unraid docker side?
also more of a plex side question, but i have a good amount of 4k content (trying to grow the collection why I'm upgrading) however the server will not have enough power to transcode 4k streams on the fly, and was curious to know if there is a way to automatically have a 1080p transcoded copy made and stored without me having to do it manually through something like handbrake?
I've probably missed out some other stuff but any info is greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Blair