February 14, 201610 yr Hello all I am thinking about turning my Plex HTPC into a server using unraid 6 and a few dockers, Docker will be plex, dropbox, crashplan, owncloud My HTPC components are: processor AMD Phenom X6 1055T mb GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ram 8gb 750w psu 3tb drive Photos/home movies 3tb drive movies 2tb drive tv shows 1tb drive kids movies Thinking I need to add a Pcie sata card to add 3 more drive for backups, and change my case to a Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Big Tower Case to fit all my 7 drives, 1 cache, 1 Parity at this time. Is there any downside to this?
February 14, 201610 yr Author What are you going to use to watch stuff instead of your HTPC? Either a smart tv with plex app or an dell desk top. The Htpc now was PMS and PHT on it . I have three desktops ,2 smart tv ,1 iphone,1 ipad thats connect, all my video are mkv ,mp4 or avi. I was looking to make that Htpc in a to server and a nas,
February 14, 201610 yr Should be fine, only thing to check is your CPU Passmark. As a rough guide you need 2000 to transcode each 1080p stream. EDIT: Your CPU has a passmark of over 5000 so you should be good.
February 14, 201610 yr How power hungry is this cpu? I got no idea.... Google it and look for the TDP...
February 14, 201610 yr Author Thanks ! Lol I came up with 95w ouch compared to some of the low power consumption ones i was reading about!
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