Nuul Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) My existing server is based on an AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G @ 3100 MHz. It's only running a 4x4TB setup and mainly used for Plex. It's done OK up until now. 4K brought it to it's knees but I got around that by buying an Nvidia shield for the living room, it never needed to transcode so all was well. However, I'm now in a long distance relationship so I do a whole lot of watch together with my girlfriend. Since a lot of the encoding is 265 and she's running a Roku TV so transcoding is needed and the poor CPU just can't do two streams if I'm upstairs on my Roku 3 as well. So, long way of setting the question up: what's a good budget processor/mobo/RAM combo I can toss into my existing case and make transcoding issues a thing of the past? I'm trying to keep this sub $500 if possible. Edited August 28, 2021 by Nuul Quote Link to comment
Nuul Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 I ended up buying a RYZEN 5 3600, 16 GB of RAM and a B450 based mobo. Is it really as easy as just moving the drives and flash drive over once I have the new hardware setup? Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 18 minutes ago, Nuul said: I ended up buying a RYZEN 5 3600, 16 GB of RAM and a B450 based mobo. Is it really as easy as just moving the drives and flash drive over once I have the new hardware setup? Globally yes. However, you need to consider if you have hardware passthrough to a VM or a GPU set up for dockers. It is generally recommended to deactivate Array automatic startup, check that every drive and configuration is OK before starting services one after the other. Quote Link to comment
Nuul Posted September 6, 2021 Author Share Posted September 6, 2021 Thankfully I'm not doing any of that. I'm doing some file shares and running a plex docker. Thank you, sounds like it's pretty straight forward then. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 6 hours ago, Nuul said: Thankfully I'm not doing any of that. I'm doing some file shares and running a plex docker. Thank you, sounds like it's pretty straight forward then. Probably still a good policy to start the Array manually after basic checks, but you should be fine. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.