January 31, 20233 yr It’s time for me to retire the trusty Unraid box I built in 2012. It’s an I5-3570K that has been running almost non stop for the past decade. I run the Arr’s, Plex and couple of other Dockers on it that I use for development. My goal is to get something that’s a little faster unpacking and that won’t struggle to unpack and stream a video to Plex at the same time. I have five data drives, an SSD for cache and a single parity. All told it’s 58TB. On my current build some of the drives are run off of a Marvel SATA adapter. I’m sure that’s a bottleneck. Can someone do a quick sanity check on the following parts and make any suggestions? I will be reusing the case, power supply, cables etc from the old build as they have all been replaced in the last few years. Partpicker link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/B3YJ4s is open and will take comments. CPU - Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor MB - ASRock Z690 Pro RS ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (has Intel NIC) Memory - Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory Cooler - ID-COOLING IS-50X V2 54.6 CFM CPU Cooler
January 31, 20233 yr 4 minutes ago, monkmonk said: built in 2012 Have you converted all your drives off reiserfs?
January 31, 20233 yr 6 minutes ago, monkmonk said: some of the drives are run off of a Marvel SATA adapter
January 31, 20233 yr Author 49 minutes ago, trurl said: Have you converted all your drives off reiserfs? Good point. I have two 8TB drives that I am working on, the others are XFS.
January 31, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, monkmonk said: CPU - Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor That certainly has the grunt to do what you need but, as seen here, even a modern i3 (such as the 12300) may be enough. iGPU/QSV in the modern core processors is much better than it was in the i5-3570K. It is sufficient for Plex even if you have transcoding needs and cannot direct play all content. The 12700K will give you even more headroom, of course, and enough even to run a VM.
January 31, 20233 yr 36 minutes ago, monkmonk said: I have two 8TB drives that I am working on You have till 2025
January 31, 20233 yr Author 1 hour ago, Hoopster said: The 12700K will give you even more headroom, of course, and enough even to run a VM. I have a couple of VM’s that I use for work. Having a place for them at home would be nice.
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