October 26, 201411 yr First, I wanted to sincerely thank everyone for their help. Without it, I am sure I wouldn't have been able to get this rig up and and running. Second, I am thinking about running some other services on this server such as : 1. Sickbeard 2. NZBGet 3. Couch Potato 4. Headphones 5. Plex Media Server It seems when I try to run Plex and some of the other services, it seems I'm pushing the server a bit hard. My build has an i3-3220 with 8 GB of (KVR1333D3E9SK2) RAM. Currently, I have 9 data drives (mixed size) and 1 parity. I have not installed a cache drive yet. I wanted to see if there are any suggestions the community may have so that this build can handle the load. Upgrade the cpu? memory? add a cache drive? Thanks in advance.
October 26, 201411 yr you have enough horsepower to run those with your current rig. Plex will be the only variable that may cause you to want more power, purely dependent on how many streams you want to transcode at once.
October 27, 201411 yr Agree ... your i3 should be plenty for one Plex stream along with those other apps. If you want to run multiple Plex streams, you may want to upgrade to a higher-end CPU. A cache drive for your apps may also help, as it would significantly speed up writes for working files, which wouldn't be on the parity-protected array.
October 28, 201411 yr Author Thanks for the feedback. How do you determine the cpu required for X number of streams?
October 28, 201411 yr There's no "absolute", but in general if you have 2000-2500 "Passmarks" for each stream that requires transcoding you'll be fine. So if you want to stream 3 at a time, and all are likely to require transcoding, then you'll want a CPU with a PassMark of at least 7500.
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