PrettySmallBalls

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Basic ATX Case Under 16" in Depth (alien.top)
 

I'm building a Proxmox system and am having trouble finding a case that meets my needs. I require a case that is equal to or less than 16" x 11" x 23" (Depth x Width x Height) that can fit an ATX board and ideally three or four 3.5" drives (no PCIe Devices planned though). It also needs to be able to lay on it's side on a shelf, so ideally it should have front to back cooling. It will be living in a utility room so it doesn't need to be pretty.

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Proxmox i3-13100 vs i5-13400? (alien.top)
 

I'm putting together my first Proxmox build to replace some laptops I have. Will be used as a Plex Server and NVR (Blue Iris) to start but I'm sure I will expand on what it's used for in the future. I was planning to put in an i3-13100 but I can get an i5-13400 for ~$100 CDN more. Is it worth it? This started as a low consumption replacement for workstation laptops but would the extra two performance cores and the 4 efficiency cores be a big benefit? I know the 13400 has a higher TDP but if it's not running full out will the power consumption differ much from the 13100?

Thoughts?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. That'd be great.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thanks a ton for the input. I actually found two Seagate 14TB external drives for $130 off at Best Buy that I'll shuck. I grabbed those because they sounded like a good deal and can replace the five media drives that I have for the Plex Server and the two for the Security Camera Z-Book. I have two RAIDed NVME drives in the Synology that run all of the docker containers so the four drives in the NAS only run a couple times a day for backups of a couple PCs. I'd prefer to keep that for the time being as I don't plan to RAID the two 14TB drives as it would just be media for Plex and the security camera footage so if one fails, it fails.

I found an N100 4-Port 2.5Gig box that as you mentioned I think will run PfSense, HA and Pihole, so that will remove the 50-watt i3 router I'm using now.

I like the idea of an i3-13100 based system. Do you have any suggestions for other components? Mobo, Power Supply etc.? The last PCs I built were in 2007 and 2014 so it has been a while.

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Looking to consolidate and reduce power consumption (alien.top)
 

I have a "rack" that pulls between 350-400W average 24/7. I'm looking for suggestions to bring the energy consumption down by doing some consolidation. I'm not against putting all my eggs in one server if it saves me on the electricity bill. A lot of what I'm using are old components I grabbed from work over the years, so I didn't go for efficiency when putting it all together. The switches and APs I'm not too interested in changing but I'd expect I can probably do better with the PFSense box and the 2x Z-Books. Currently I have the following,

  • ISP Modem - Bell Gigahub
  • PFSense Router (i5-4570S, 16GB RAM, 2-Port 2.5G QNAP NIC) ~40-50W Average. Configured as PPPoE with a 3Gig connection so it does need a bit of CPU to get the full speed.
  • Home Assistant - Raspberry Pi 4
  • PiHole DNS - Raspberry Pi Zero
  • HP Z-Book G2 (i7-4910MQ/32GB RAM/Quadro K2100M) - Plex Server/VPN/Torrent Box (w/ 5x External 3.5" Drives in enclosures - Up to 7 or 8 1080p Plex Streams (worst case). Usually 5 or 6 of them are Direct Play with 1-2 being Transcodes.
  • HP Z-Book G2 (i7-4810MQ/32GB RAM/Quadro K2100M) - Blue Iris Surveillance Software (w/ 2x External 1TB Drives) - About 20%-35% CPU usage.
  • 1x Mokerlink 5-port 2.5Gig Switch
  • 2x TP-Link TL-SG105 Managed Switches
  • 1x TP-Link TL-1005P 5-Port PoE Switch (Running 4x Reolink RLC520A cameras) ~40W
  • 1x Asus RT-AX88U as Access Point
  • 1x Linksys WRT1900ACS as AP for IoT Devices
  • NAS - Synology DS920+ w/ 4x 4TB Internal Drives and 1x WD External for Backup (Running the following docker containers, PiHole, Bitwarden, Calibre, Calibre-Web, iPerf3, Grafana, Portainer, Prometheus).

Thoughts?