November 22, 20205 yr I currently have a 24 bay SATA backplane server with a regular PSU and old internal hardware (10+ years) which I would like to upgrade. Expectations of the server: - Plex (including transcoding up to 3 streams at a time) - Virtualization (OSX) - photo, file, and music storage, backup - basic dockers for media handling, VPN, pfsens - NOT sure if I need a discreet GPU? wont be doing any gaming, only help would be with Plex transcoding? - Upgrade the HDDs, but have time to do this and can add drives at this time if needed. I am currently using 33TB and need room for more. The last time that I put any hardware together was well over 6+ years ago, so I am definitely 'out of it' with that is available. I am looking for recommendations for a motherboard, CPU, RAM and controller cards that would be sufficient. I would like some decent speed out of the server and realize that the old multiple smaller drives are a bit of a bottleneck at this time, so will be slowing moving to 8TB or 12TB drives. I would be happy to move the two cache drives that I have over to a set of M.2 drives on the motherboard to reduce a bottleneck (OR would 2 internal 2.5" SSDs be just as good - I dont see much in price difference. Budget right now is not really an issue, but I don't want to spend money on hardware that is going to go to waste (ie a GPU if I don't need one, a ridiculous motherboard if I dont need all the features etc). I am looking for parts mostly in Canada since I cannot get anything picked up in the US at this time with the border closed. Thanks for the help!
November 26, 20205 yr Author Does anyone have any recommendations? Hoping to take advantage of some sales if possible. Thanks a bunch!
December 12, 20205 yr Did you have any luck? I'm in a similar situation at the moment and hoping to source some recommendations.
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