Advice on Unraid server

[CaptainJmar]

Hi, i just recently got a Dell PowerEdge T320 for a pretty good deal and was wondering if it would be any good as an Unraid server. The specs are: 

16gb ram, Intel Zeon [email protected], 6x Dell SAS 3TB 7200RPM Hard Drives. 
My main purpose for Unraid is Plex. I’d like the server to handle 4K streaming. I usually only have 1-2 streams at a time so nothing major. Any help would be really appreciated! If the server won’t suit my needs i’ll just sell it and continue using my desktop. My desktop has a 7700k, 8gb of ram, GTX 1050ti. Thanks in advance

[Dissones4U]

4 hours ago, CaptainJmar said:

was wondering if it would be any good as an Unraid server

I doubt it would do well transcoding 4k, plex offers some guidance here (The suggested minimum for a single 4K transcode would be an Intel Core i7 @3.2GHz). However, in general it sounds like this would make a great basic NAS maybe for backup or something. I have a much older T410 with a single Xeon e5506 and 12 GB DDR3. I stream from it using Kodi without issue but I don't transcode at all, everything I have is 720 and 1080p, nothing in 4k.

 

Note that your included processor has a higher overall passmark rating than the bare minimum i7 chip BUT the single thread rating is lower with more threads, I'm unclear on how these two would compare in your use case.

Edited November 24, 2019 by Dissones4U