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Looking for a new server (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

I am looking for a new home server to replace my existing hp proliant microserver gen8.

Requirements:

Reduce power consumption. It currently runs at around 60 watts at idle, I would like to reduce that.
Enough performance for various docker containers
Enough power for 4k HDR video transcoding for a jellyfin container, whether graphics unit in the CPU or an additional graphics card doesn't matter
At least 4 SATA ports and space for 2 m.2 SSDs
16GB of RAM is a minimum

It doesn't have to be a ready-made solution, I have no problem putting everything together myself.

Edit: Budget is ~500€

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I get both with one of these

Super low wattage at idle but it transcodes like a beast using QSV

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's pretty slick. Thanks, you may have just solved one of my project plans.

At that price/performance, it would supplant 4 Raspberry Pis I was planning on using for a variety of tasks.

I've been lazily running a gaming desktop as a "server" for far too long. Trying to reduce power consumption now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's pretty sweet. I went the other way, starting on a Pi 4, moved up to a cheap ($110) Celeron N3350 device, then finally this little beast when I started getting HDR content and needing to transcode with tonemapping. 4 times the RAM, double the cores and it's just way faster in general.

It'd also be perfect for light desktop use IMO

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And you're able to transcode 4k with that? 1080p with hardware offload isn't surprising, but 4k really requires some extra horsepower.

EDIT: Maybe I'm wrong, seems like quicksync even on a Celeron has gotten pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep, 4k to 4k tonemapping, even, which was one of the use-cases my previous Celeron N3350 server couldn't handle (it got ~14 fps)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is really good, do you know if I can plug my 4tb m2 ssd in there? If yes, I'm moving tomorrow😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I haven't personally opened it up, but it does internally use a replaceable m.2 NVME SSD according to the info that came with it, so you should be able to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check that it uses the same interface for the M2 slot as your SSD (PCIe vs SATA).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It does. What concerns me is the sign "up to 2TB". And I don't understand if it is a limitation of preinstalled os or hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That would be conceivable, but I would like to pack my existing HDDs in a case if possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, in my case I host my hard drives on a cheap ARM Synology NAS and an external drive plugged into an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi. Just have an external SSD plugged into the Jellyfin server as a cache/transcodes drive

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Wow, that's pretty slick. Thanks, you may have just solved one of my project plans.

At that price/performance, it would supplant 4 Raspberry Pis I was planning on using for a variety of tasks.

I've been lazily running a gaming desktop as a "server" for far too long. Trying to reduce power consumption now.