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1 minute ago, Reciever said:

I was mildly irritated that GPU transcoding requires a subscription/membership 😞

 

May look to try JellyFin again, worked pretty well for what it was.

GPU transcoding on which platform requires a membership? I know Plex does want you to have the pro version, but Jellyfin is free.

2 minutes ago, Tenoroon said:

 

Are these still available or have they sold?

I still have them.

2 hours ago, Rage Set said:

 

I completely agree. One of my servers in my homelab has a W-1290 in it and its a beast with that iGPU. But I think those days are coming to end. 

It's pretty sad that my little 12700k can do 2x as many 4k transcodes than my 3080...

I was going to eventually get a Xeon W for my server but I'm sad they aren't doing any with an igpu.  Sounds silly, but nothing on the dGPU side can really touch quicksync at this time. Looks like I'll be using just a consumer cpu with ECC memory instead.  Well unless Intel surprises me.  I do want to build a Xeon W for the desktop though, lol.

Ended up getting a great deal on a Supermicro 2u 826 case, two xeon e5-2640 E4 CPUs, and 384GB of DDR4 ECC memory.  Already ordered a cheap Nvidia Tesla P4 gpu to make this into a fun backup/test server.  Maybe I have a problem...

You won't notice any real difference.  Synthetic numbers will look faster, but access times will be slower.  The one advantage is you would have a single larger drive and not have to deal with two drives.  One downside is that you are increasing your points of failure. 

Logged in this am to see I have a "One Year In" badge.  Wow I can't believe it's been one year since NBR closed down and thankfully @Recieverand @Hiewstepped up to create what eventually became NBT.  I'm excited to still get to be a part of the experience with laptops/desktops and other hardware even if I don't have near as much time as I used to. 

What has the last year brought you? 

For me it's been a whirlwind.  My daughter is now 2 years old and I have a 4-month-old son.  I'm getting closer to graduating from residency and being done with all of the added stressors that my program likes to add to my life. And for the first time in a long time, I've had the same laptop and desktop since I normally upgrade quite often, lol.  It's been a great albeit fast year to be certain. 

Cheers to you all for making this place fun! 

My buddy is going to put together an unraid plex server with a 12600k + ASUS Z690-PLUS TUF Gaming WiFi D5 motherboard from MC (seems like a great value at $296 since the MB is only $50).  Memory speed really doesn't matter too much, but figured I'd ask what people recommend here. Cost is priority number 1, but if I could get him something with hynix memory I'd prefer that. I think the cheap patriot DDR5 on amazon has hynix and is around $100 for 32GB.  Any other thoughts?

On 1/11/2023 at 6:32 PM, ryan said:

like I say keep us posted. 32tb might sound like alot but in todays world is it really?

Depending on the type of RAID @kojackruns, it may be less than 32TB.  I don't have my backup server running any type of redundancy since it only has 4 bays and it's my 3rd line backup.  It also lives in my safe unless I'm actively backing up files to it.

14 hours ago, kojack said:

That's why I want to use this system.  It fits in my printer stand like a smack in the face.  I will take a picture after of the spot it sits in.  I don't need fast,  I need Lots of storage after I am finished with a project.  Got any pics of your system?  

Sure, here it is next the the server:

It's not a bad little build considering I have <$75 into it excluding the drives. 

Funny we are doing similar projects.  I just put together an HP Mediasmart server and upgraded it to a quad-core xeon with 4GB of ram.  I put 3x8TB drives and a 14TB drive in it for backups. It's not fast, but it runs UnRAID and is small enough to fit in my fire safe.

3 hours ago, TwistedAndy said:

Unfortunately, Dell completely locked undervolting on XPS 15 and 17 2022 with recent BIOS updates. Those commands do not work anymore. You can find more details here: Dell False Advertising.

Ugh I wonder if the variables switched or if it's completely blocked now?  Makes me not want to update the firmware on my 9510...

On 12/6/2022 at 1:58 PM, ygohome said:

Xeon, very cool.  We upgraded our ram but still rocking the Pentium E5200 dual core.  It's just such a great and compact machine.

 

1 gigabit NIC to the HP MediaSmart server and works great

Well you've inspired me to pick up another Mediasmart EX495 for $50. I threw unraid on it and three 8TB drives and a 12TB in it for a backup server. I also picked up a 4GB stick of memory from ebay for $6 and a 4 core xeon CPU for $8.  Right now copying files to the server is CPU limited much more than I expected (average write speed of around 75MB/s even without parity).  The 4GB of ram helped a little, but I need to get this Xeon installed ASAP (but first I need to build a new VGA cable and am waiting for parts).  Overall a fun trip down memory lane and kind of a cool little backup server.

The only bummer is that the guy who owned the server in the past was a smoker and the thing was filthy (no where was it described this way).  I spent a good 2-3 hours scrubbing the heck out of it with rubbing alcohol.

@Mr. Foxwhere did you end up picking up those sticks?  I see Newegg has them, but for $350 a stick, lol. 

3 hours ago, kojack said:

That's why I am a writer....I can come up with gems.  ha ha!  Back when NBR was rolling good on the forum side of things, but the main page was severely lacking, I offered Charles my services to write new and engaging articles for the site.  He said that ship had sailed.  Too bad, I could have provided some great content for it.  I am currently going to be writing some new books, and other things soon and I cannot wait to get at it all.  

One book is about getting refugees out of Afghanistan with the Canadian Armed forces.  There is a Veteran here with 4 or 5 books worth of personal materials, and images about how all that went down.  Another client has a lifetime of hunting and fishing stories from all over northern Canada and Alaska.  He wants me to compile them into books for him to sell.  I get paid, They get paid more!  I can even do the publishing layout and cover design etc.  A one stop shop besides actually printing the books. 

 

I love telling stories.  I only found out about this love since starting our family travel blog about having a son with autism and how we travel and give him life experiences, and adventures. It's all I want to do now.  Tell stories about tech, family, life, and history.  

I enjoyed reading your blogs about your off-roading trips with your son. If I recall correctly, you were thinking about purchasing a new off-roading vehicle at one point?

I don't see your acer listed in your sig, what is the model number?

I do love to see old members returning to this forum for sure.  I wish Spartan would joint back up, but I don't know if that'll happen.  I love having a bunch of different view points and knowledge sets.  I know @kojackand I had numerous pages of back and forth with our disagreements, but I always respected his view points even if I disagreed with them, lol.  Good to see you back.  

Hah it's most certainly cheaper for me than my auto hobbies.  My handle comes from a fox-body mustang that I dumped way too much money into. After that I moved on the Subaru STIs and then on to trucks (although I really miss my 2007 STI limited).  When I have less money I typically work on PCs (or when it's cold out, lol) and if I happen to have a decent bonus it used to go to cars...

7 hours ago, Etern4l said:

 

A serious operation.

Hah more like spending needlessly on a hobby that I take too seriously.

Ended up buying a few things for the server:

4x10TB HGST SAS HDDs to run as parity drives

2x800GB MLC HGST SAS3 SSDs (with 15PB endurance) for write cache

Unraid Pro when it was on sale

Looks like I'll be putting together an unRaid server with a mixture of ZFS to better protect data.  I think the next upgrade for the server will be a Intel W680 or similar setup so I can run EEC DDR5, but that will be down the road.

6 hours ago, ygohome said:

The HP Mediasmart server rocks.  Its 12+ yrs old now   It's been running 24/7/365 for 12 yrs.  I've had to replace it's PSU this year when the original finally died.  

 

We added a little dongle a long time ago to the motherboard for VGA output so we can get into it's BIOS.  It has Linux on it since 2013 and I just updated it a few months ago from Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (which it had been on since 2013) to OEL 7.9.  It is acting as an additional backup repository.  The OS is on the HP's Disk 1 and the other 3 hotswap trays are 4TB HDDs for full/incremental backups of my physical machines (entire laptop partitions and the other minitower's boot device).

 

The supermicro minitower is the other backup repo for nightly VM backups and also for backing up the HP Mediasmart boot device.

yep I built the vga output dongle as well to make things easier.  It was a great little build, I regret selling it because it would be a nice little backup box. 

*on edit* I also forgot I upgraded the cpu to a quad core Xeon and added a whopping 4gb of ram to mine, lol.

Dang I used to have one of those little mediasmart servers.  It was a great little machine before my plex collection got out of hand. 

Ugh I wish you didn't have to go to ebay to sell this. Nothing like paying a huge fee and then having the government slap you with a 1099k for it.  Glad you sold it though.

@Mr. Fox

I know you're selling your 2080ti, but I came across this on [H]:

https://hardforum.com/threads/ddr3-ddr4-ecc-unbuffered-2080ti-heatkiller.2023571/#post-1045517453

Not sure if the Heatkiller would work on your 2080ti, but figured I'd link it since it's a good price.  Maybe a way to keep your 2080ti, lol.

29 minutes ago, serpro69 said:

True. But the soldered RAM will still run dual-channel, and the other one single channel, right? I don't think (or well, I hope - haven't really tested it, or read too much about it either) the performance hit will not be that big.

It will run on dual channel memory for the first 16GB (assuming 8GB soldered) and then for the amount thereafter it will run single channel.

Example:
8GB soldered + 16GB in the ram slot = first 16GB in dual channel and last 8GB in single channel. 

It really depends on how much ram people utilize if asynchronous memory will be an issue or not.  For most people it's not an issue because they don't often use 16+GB of ram anyway.