March 16, 20188 yr 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.
March 16, 20188 yr Author 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
March 16, 20188 yr 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.
March 16, 20188 yr Author 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?
March 16, 20188 yr 26 minutes ago, uaeproz said: How can I use it for VM without assigning it? is that even possible? Unassigned Devices plugin.
March 19, 20188 yr Author On 3/15/2018 at 10:15 PM, trurl said: Unassigned Devices plugin. Great! Thanks man. I managed to do that.
March 19, 20188 yr Author 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?
March 19, 20188 yr 4 minutes ago, uaeproz said: My budget is around $5k for one card Is that 5k US $ ?
March 19, 20188 yr Author I will be running multiple 4K movies at the same time so the card should be capable
March 19, 20188 yr 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
March 21, 20188 yr Author 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, 20188 yr by uaeproz Typo
March 21, 20188 yr Author 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
March 21, 20188 yr Author 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.
March 21, 20188 yr Author 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, 20188 yr by uaeproz
March 21, 20188 yr Author 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
March 22, 20188 yr 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
March 22, 20188 yr Author 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?
March 22, 20188 yr Author 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
March 23, 20188 yr Author Just now, uaeproz said: Finally I found something useful: According to this, I came up with these calculations:
March 26, 20188 yr Author 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
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