Time to upgrade the server - don't know where to begin with my budget


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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.

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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

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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? :)

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