Upgrading my current build to enable QSV for my family and closest friends

[Allfather]

Hey all.

 

I am currently using the following build for RClone/MergerFS/Sonarr/Radarr/Overseerr/Plex and Direct Plays / Direct Streams everything locally to two nVidia Shields in my house.

 

Motherboard: ASRockRack E3C236D2I

CPU: 1x Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1240 v5 @ 3.50GHz

RAM: 1x 16GiB DDR4 Sinble-bit ECC

Cache: 1x 400GB Intel® NVME SSD 750 Series (For download, repair, unpack) - utilizing the only PCIe slot available

Cache: 2x 240GB Intel® SSD DC S4600 (system- and appdata set to this cache with cache-flag to only)

Array: 2x 4TB WD Red (Data/Parity)

 

However, more and more of my closest friends are starting to ask for access to my Plex and I plan to invite my family as well.

This will most likely murder my poor Xeon (as it is occasionally busy with metadata processing, repairing and unpacking) and I will finally go down the rabbit hole known as Hardware Transcoding.

 

I have decided to go down the Intel QSV lane using either the 730 or 750 (I5-11400 or I5-11600) iGPU together with 2x16GB DDR4 3200MHz on the ASUS ROG Strix B560-I mITX board.

 

Will the 750 provide any benefits over 730 or even 630?

I read somwehere that the 730 should be able to to HDR Tonemaping in hardware when, and if, Plex will support it

 

While upgrading the processing power I am also considering getting rid of all current storage in favor for the two avaible M.2-slots on the aforementioned motherboard. I know that TRIM is only supported on cache devices and therefore I need to trick UNRAID with a USB- or Flash device and simply pin everytning to the cache device - is this an viable option or have I misunderstood the trick?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 27, 2021 by Allfather