New Build-Very Plex heavy-Pics of Current Plex server

[kciaccio]

I am building a new UNRAID server with 90% usage as a stand alone PLEX server. I want to off  load the burden of my main PC to my New UNRAID server.

 

I currently use a overclocked I7 2600K with 16 gigs of ram to run my PLEX server with a very basic and old UNRAID 22TB server as the media file server.

 

http://s16.postimg.org/t1mlhyu2t/computer2.jpg

 

Sometimes I see 7 streams at once from my PLEX server and this is from a very old UNRAID Box serving my PLEX server.. version 4.5.4 with 2  SATA 1 cards as part of the hardware...Hard to believe it is even pulling it off. But I am sure some users have stuttering issues during play. lol

 

I am upgrading my network to XFINITY from my UVERSE system. Currently I have 50MB down and 6MB to 100MB Down and 20MB up thru XFINITY.

 

I have purchased a new high performance cable modem and HP managed switch to make use of Bonding,teaming,link aggregation what ever term you choose to like.

 

The new UNRAID server will have a Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3GHz and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157541&cm_re=ASRock_X99_Extreme6_LGA_2011-v3_Intel_X99_SATA-_-13-157-541-_-Product the new as the motherboard. 16 Gigs of ddr4 ram and several http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145973.

 

I am attaching a screen shot of what my main computer goes through on a regular basis supporting my PLEX server and want to know if this new set up using a central UNRAID system will handle this type of load and more.

 

 

 

Thanks for your input.

[BRiT]

I would not overclock my fileserver. I prefer data integrity over a small savings of cash on cheating out on a processor upgrade.

 

Most of the activity that plex will be doing is transcoding;to ease that burden you could simply get lower encodings of the files you're serving up (720p instead of 1080p).

[kciaccio]

That is correct. That is the plan....Anybody push the limits on this yet using a 6 core processor 16 gigs of RAM and 7200rpm nas Drives and NIC teaming? 

 

I am keeping my old Unraid server as a back up in case of a melt down so sky is the limit.

[kciaccio]

Any advice?

[Chris Pollard]

Impressive.  If I could get more upstream bandwidth I would have similar problems to you I think.

 

I wish they would allow limiting of remote streams,  If I could cap people at 720p all my problems would go away.

 

As for your CPU choice.... Borderline running out of bandwdith before CPU...  good rules of thumb here :-

 

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201774043-What-kind-of-CPU-do-I-need-for-my-Server-computer-

 

2000 passmark for each 1080p 10Mbps stream they reckon.... 

[kciaccio]

Is there a tutorial on here on how to set up the teaming/bonding on UNRAID?

[gundamguy]

Is there a tutorial on here on how to set up the teaming/bonding on UNRAID?

 

Not to my knowlage, but I do know that someone posted about this in the General Support forum a few weeks back.

 

Not sure if this will help you, or point you in the right direction or not.

 

Link

 

Edit: Or not, because I see you were the last poster in that thread.

 

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