January 20, 20188 yr It has come time to upgrade the power of my unRaid system. Built in 2011, the system is used very simply to store media (Blu-Rays and DVDs ripped with MakeMKV and Music, largely saved in Apple Lossless format). Plex is then used on a Roku, AppleTV & an HTPC for streaming video content and Sonos for music. Due to low computing power, the Plex docker is not used. Current system specs: Motherboard: ASRock 880GM-LE (Micro ATX) CPU: AMD Sempron 145 (812 Passmark) RAM: 4GB PSU: Corsair CX V2 500-Watt 80 Plus Case: AZZA Helios 910 with 3 Norco SS-5—5-Bay Modules SATA Expansion: 1 x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 & 1 x Monoprice 102530 SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express Drives: 1 x 10TB Parity, 13 x 3-10TB for total of 60+ GB The goal is to have a system that can handle 2 simultaneous video streams (uncompressed 1080p) while also being able to handle adding new content. It would also be nice if the machine could handle transcoding duties (currently managed by an i7 system) for compressing movies onto and ipad or accessing remotely through Plex app. I do not envision a need for any VM or gaming. I would also be open to adding a secondary parity drive and a cache drive if it would increase performance and reliability. I would love any recommendations for a new motherboard/cpu combo (will also have to upgrade RAM) that would serve the above purposes and provide some future proofing as well. Ideally power consumption would be low, but this is not a driving concern. Thanks for any thoughts or recommendations.
January 20, 20188 yr Do you have a budget in mind? Do you have any more room for drives in your current setup?
January 20, 20188 yr Author It would be nice if budget could stay around $500, but I'm OK if is costs more. I only have slots for 16 drives right now, 14 of which are being used. One slot is kept open for pre-clearing disk before adding to the array and the other empty slot is available on one of the SATA Expansion cards. There are also several 3tb drives which could be consolidated onto one larger drive if additional space is needed.
January 20, 20188 yr Where are you located? US, Canada or elsewhere? So $500 for MB, CPU and RAM? Edited January 20, 20188 yr by ashman70
January 20, 20188 yr Author Located in the US. $500 for MB, CPU and RAM if possible (I haven't spent a lot of time researching if this is totally a reasonable expectation). If it is more for something that will last another six years, I'm OK with that.
January 20, 20188 yr Here is a Ryzen bundle that fits that price point. You may have an ask around here about Ryzen and stability issues in 6.4 I believe they have gotten them pretty much worked out, but as I don't have a Ryzen system I can't say. Ryzen is a very good bang for the buck. This combo comes with an 8 core Ryzen CPU, a decent motherboard and 8GB of RAM which is double what you have now, all for under $500.00. https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3442584 This Intel combo comes with an older quad core CPU for around the same price. To get a combo with the newer intel CPU is about $200.00 more. https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3646856 These are just some preliminary suggestions, other people may have better ones. Edited January 20, 20188 yr by ashman70
January 20, 20188 yr Author Quote @ashman70, thanks for the recommendations. The Ryzen combo looks like a good option, and would certainly be a huge upgrade from my present system, while providing headroom beyond my current needs. I have briefly looked at the Ryzen issue and it seems that disabling C6 mode is a workaround. My question regarding this is what, if any, performance impact does this have?
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