flixxx Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Hi all, I currently have an old server that is about time to upgrade. I've been out of the hardware game for way to long and I am at a loss of where to begin. I currently have 11 HDD's as follows; 1 parity 8 disks 1 SSD cache 1 unassigned device Hardware specs: Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 16 GiB DDR3 (max. installable capacity 32 GiB) ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8H67-M PRO Version Rev X.0x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Marvell 6480 8 Channel SAS/SATA RAID PCI-E Card The primary purpose is to stream plex for friends and family, store data and run a couple of VM's. Ideally, i'd like to keep the SATA PCI-E card but I get a sense it's not highly recommended with a new upgrade. I have a budget of about $1,000 ... it does not have to be cutting edge but keep me going for another few years assuming the use case remains the same. Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, flixxx said: The primary purpose is to stream plex for friends and family, store data and run a couple of VM's. Ideally, i'd like to keep the SATA PCI-E card but I get a sense it's not highly recommended with a new upgrade. See my signature as an example - maybe it helps 😉 My machine is only for Plex and HW-Transcoding The Marvel-Controller is "not" recommended - use LSI instead With v6.9.1 you can also use 10th gen intel CPUs and NICs Edited March 21, 2021 by Zonediver Quote Link to comment
flixxx Posted March 21, 2021 Author Share Posted March 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Zonediver said: See my signature as an example - maybe it helps 😉 My machine is only for Plex and HW-Transcoding The Marvel-Controller is "not" recommended - use LSI instead With v6.9.1 you can also use 10th gen intel CPUs and NICs Where is your signature? Quote Link to comment
alexandru360 Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Hello guys I am using this thread to post a question; currently I have on my server a MSI X2999 PRO it is not a bad mainboard card but there is no way to do KVM Passthrough for video cards has anyone tried the X299 Taichi or the X299 Taichi CLX Thank you. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 16 minutes ago, flixxx said: Where is your signature? Many people have their system specs in their signature but the forum default does not show it. You can adjust it there : https://forums.unraid.net/settings/signature/ 1 Quote Link to comment
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