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Would this be good for a Plex server? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core No HDD SAS

Going for 50 AUD (32 USD)

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

I would look at the list of CPUs that support hardware encoding and see if this Xeon is on the list. If it’s not, I would pass on it for a Plex server. It might be good for a NAS, though. It’s a pretty old CPU, but would be perfectly adequate for a NAS/NFS server.