trurl Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 14 minutes ago, uaeproz said: I read somewhere in the forums @johnnie.black is saying cache needs to be balanced every month. I thought you meant balancing disk usage in the array. OK, that makes sense. 12 minutes ago, uaeproz said: I added the other NVMe card in the list of drives Do you mean you have the NVMe as an unassigned device? That sounds good. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 17 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you mean you have the NVMe as an unassigned device? That sounds good. Assigned as drive 1 in the array of devices Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Just now, uaeproz said: Assigned as drive 1 in the array of devices You don't want that drive in the parity array. Writes to the parity array read, calculate, and write parity at the same time, so not only writing the NVME drive, but reading both it and parity, doing the parity calculation, and writing both. And of course, this will ultimately happen at the speed of the parity disk. Also, some question if SSDs should be used in the array at all. They can't even be trimmed because of parity. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 4 minutes ago, trurl said: You don't want that drive in the parity array. Writes to the parity array read, calculate, and write parity at the same time, so not only writing the NVME drive, but reading both it and parity, doing the parity calculation, and writing both. And of course, this will ultimately happen at the speed of the parity disk. Also, some question if SSDs should be used in the array at all. They can't even be trimmed because of parity. How can I use it for VM without assigning it? is that even possible? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 26 minutes ago, uaeproz said: How can I use it for VM without assigning it? is that even possible? Unassigned Devices plugin. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 On 3/15/2018 at 10:15 PM, trurl said: Unassigned Devices plugin. Great! Thanks man. I managed to do that. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 Now I wanna add a GPU. This is to focus to dedicate it for transcoding plex videos My budget is around $5k for one card, I don’t want to add more than one. What do you guys suggest? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, uaeproz said: My budget is around $5k for one card Is that 5k US $ ? Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 1 minute ago, trurl said: Is that 5k US $ ? Yes Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 I will be running multiple 4K movies at the same time so the card should be capable Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 And compatible Quote Link to comment
JTok Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 I will be running multiple 4K movies at the same time so the card should be capable There are some limitations associated with Plex and hardware acceleration that you may want to familiarize yourself with before spending a lot of money on hardware. For one, Nvidia limits encoding to 2 streams on at least some (if not all) of their GPUs. There are also potential issues with dockers, if that's how you are running it. I would read through this page as well as the Plex forums to get a feel for the best purchase for what you want to do. It may be in your best interest to re-ask this question there as well. https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) Not that I’ll pay 5k right away but this is the max I would put into a card providing that it will give me back the money worth. I’ve seen the V100 NVIDIA cards and man these cards are expensive! Just wondering if I can get a deal for them off eBay! but I’m not gonna invest in any card until I know for sure that it will function. What options is out there other than this card and NVIDIA? Edited March 21, 2018 by uaeproz Typo Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 This one for example? http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/amd-radeon-vega/amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-hbm2-8gb-3xdp-hdmi-black-fan-rx-vegmtbfx6 Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 On 3/19/2018 at 2:26 PM, JTok said: There are some limitations associated with Plex and hardware acceleration that you may want to familiarize yourself with before spending a lot of money on hardware. For one, Nvidia limits encoding to 2 streams on at least some (if not all) of their GPUs. There are also potential issues with dockers, if that's how you are running it. I would read through this page as well as the Plex forums to get a feel for the best purchase for what you want to do. It may be in your best interest to re-ask this question there as well. https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thanks @JTok Here is link that talksa about FFmpeg. I guess there gaming GPUs are limited to 2 streams. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) 49 minutes ago, uaeproz said: Thanks @JTok Here is link that talksa about FFmpeg. I guess there gaming GPUs are limited to 2 streams. That is using Cuda tool kit Edited March 21, 2018 by uaeproz Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Nvidia Quadro seems to have unlimited number of streams. Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 On 3/19/2018 at 2:26 PM, JTok said: There are some limitations associated with Plex and hardware acceleration that you may want to familiarize yourself with before spending a lot of money on hardware. For one, Nvidia limits encoding to 2 streams on at least some (if not all) of their GPUs. There are also potential issues with dockers, if that's how you are running it. I would read through this page as well as the Plex forums to get a feel for the best purchase for what you want to do. It may be in your best interest to re-ask this question there as well. https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Have a look here at number of supported streams: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix Quote Link to comment
JTok Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Ahh yeah. I see that the Quadro cards are more capable. That's good to know. Plex also has some limitations listed in the link I posted earlier. They only support decoding on Nvidia in Windows. To decode on Linux you will need Intel. I'm not sure if this is a limitation in Plex or something else (I would assume it's Plex though, so presumably support will get better). Of course, this may not be a major issue for your use case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 hour ago, JTok said: Ahh yeah. I see that the Quadro cards are more capable. That's good to know. Plex also has some limitations listed in the link I posted earlier. They only support decoding on Nvidia in Windows. To decode on Linux you will need Intel. I'm not sure if this is a limitation in Plex or something else (I would assume it's Plex though, so presumably support will get better). Of course, this may not be a major issue for your use case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk So my only option here is Quadro? no other option is available out there? Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Ok guys, what do you thing of this card: NVIDIA Quadro P6000. I have attached the datasheet ACMK0473_192195_DS_NV_Quadro_P6000_A4_PNY_Fnl_web_2.pdf Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 Finally I found something useful: Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 Just now, uaeproz said: Finally I found something useful: According to this, I came up with these calculations: Quote Link to comment
demonmaestro Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 How loud is the supermicro case? Quote Link to comment
uaeproz Posted March 26, 2018 Author Share Posted March 26, 2018 10 hours ago, demonmaestro said: How loud is the supermicro case? at idle, its reasonable but when at load, man this case screams! I'll post a video on YouTube if you'd like Quote Link to comment
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