December 2, 20214 yr tl;dr Is there a good CPU and Motherboard combo that has 4x SAS ports, and ideally .m2, etc. for a Plex server? I am getting a bit worried about the age of my dual xeon server, its doing well but I started to notice some CRC UDMA errors on the onboard SATA and now SAS drives which makes me think that there's an issue brewing. I also seem to have lost power to the management port. I don't have access to the server to check until a few weeks but I'm reluctant to power cycle without physical access. Also want to check for condensation or anything else in the setup. I had got some CPU errors but it was power related and fixed that quite some time back. At the moment I have the following setup: Quote 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz Supermicro X8DT6, Version 1234567890 64 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECC Utilization ARECA ARC-1261 V1.49 2010-12-02 When it works it's great (apart from Sabnzbd post-process time is horrendously slow), but it's a bit old (2012 motherboard and cpus, 2010 sas) which makes me worried about hardware failure. I have a server case that takes 12 SAS drives (i have mostly shucked slower drives), and 4x SATA attached SSD. What would be nice is a more modern Intel that can handle the 4k transcoding, etc. I also would like to retire the areca as i feel like I'm playing with fire there given the age. Budget would be 'reasonable', since its CPU/Motherboard/RAM/maybe a SAS card I'd expect it to not be more than 1k euros but I have been known to choose the 'top' model when given a choice Edited December 2, 20214 yr by spamalam tl;dr at the top
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