My current server is as follows

Motherboard - Supermicro X10SLL-F

Processor - Xeon E3-1241 v3

RAM - 16GB DDR3 ECC

LAN - onboard dual Gig

Storage - 3 Seagate ST8000VN004 Drives, 3 Seagate ST3000VN000 Drives

Cache - 2 SSD 1TB (CT1000MX500SSD1) yes I get an error every so often on my cache drives they are plugged into PCIE to SATA boards

 

With the recent upgrade to 2 4k tvs in my house and more and more content being watched and stored in native 4k on the system If my members of my household are watching on phones, or 1080p tv plex is using hardware transcoding and the little xeon just doesn't keep up.  I know I can add a Nvidia card and do hardware transcoding and plan to do that in my upcoming build, but lack the PCIE ports to support such an upgrade on current system.

 

So New Hardware.

Processor - AMD Ryzen 5 56000x

MB - ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4s

RAM - Crucial Ballistix 64GB (2x32) 288-Pin DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)

Storage will carry over from existing server no upgrades or expansion.

Cache - 2 Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 1TB PCI Express 4 x 4 NVMe

Video Card - Nvidia Quadro P2000 (2nd hand but from rep source)

 

Power supply will also carry over, its a 750w modular that was purchased for the existing server about 8 months ago.

Edited December 2, 20205 yr by m.b.d

Check to make sure adding the 2nd m.2 ssd doesn't disable sata ports you might need. Some m.2 slots share pcie lanes on the chipset with sata ports, so it becomes one or the other, not both.

21 hours ago, SeeGee said:

Check to make sure adding the 2nd m.2 ssd doesn't disable sata ports you might need. Some m.2 slots share pcie lanes on the chipset with sata ports, so it becomes one or the other, not both.

Ok thanks looking into that now.

On 12/3/2020 at 5:16 PM, m.b.d said:

Ok thanks looking into that now.

They don't make it obvious; you may need to read the specs very carefully. It'll probably be easier going by the chipset specs. Having two NVMe drives requires enough lanes into the CPU that you're into the top tier of chipsets. I had to give up a pair of SATA ports to have one NVMe drive, and if I drop another m.2 drive into the remaining open port, I have to give up another pair of SATA ports, AND the second m.2 drive will only be SATA3 speed. My (intel) gaming board isn't top tier, but it's close. I was pretty disappointed that I didn't understand the limitations earlier.

14 minutes ago, ainuke said:

They don't make it obvious; you may need to read the specs very carefully. It'll probably be easier going by the chipset specs. Having two NVMe drives requires enough lanes into the CPU that you're into the top tier of chipsets. I had to give up a pair of SATA ports to have one NVMe drive, and if I drop another m.2 drive into the remaining open port, I have to give up another pair of SATA ports, AND the second m.2 drive will only be SATA3 speed. My (intel) gaming board isn't top tier, but it's close. I was pretty disappointed that I didn't understand the limitations earlier.

I found this that clears everything up about the chipset.   NOT.