November 21, 20205 yr Please delete or close this thread, I have changed plans (see last line) and have started a new thread in motherboard/cpu section) I am looking for some new server recommendations (hardware). I looked into this last year, but never ended up getting around to it. I currently have a 24 bay case whose internals are going on 9+ years old. Uses a regular PSU, has SATA backplate on the drives. I am currently using 33TB and need room for more. There is obviously some inefficiencies in the hard drive capacities with a few of them being 1.5TB and 2TB drives (dual 4TB parity and dual 500GB cache). Open to upgrading a bunch of drives to 8TB to lower drive numbers. I currently use or plan to use the server for: - Plex (including transcoding up to 3 streams at a time) - Virtualization (OSX) - photo, file, and music storage - basic dockers for media handling, VPN etc - I would like some expandability for the future in terms of storage Currently this server is inefficient, slow for transcoding etc and uses around 160W at idle. EDIT: I have decided to upgrade the internals of this case (new MB, CPU, RAM, Controller card) - new post in motherboard/cpu section as I have no idea what is required. Edited November 22, 20205 yr by benyaki
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