Last year, I turned my old computer into a home Plex media server: I sold my gpu and bought a silent cpu cooler, an nvme boot drive and a case. I have also found a pretty good deal on a 16tb Exos hdd. I am quite happy with the overall performance because it's my first home server and I am still digging in this rabbit hole ^^
For the next upgrades, I was thinking about increasing the transcoding performance, while keeping the power draw as low as possible. I am planning to run the server 24/7 and power efficiency is really important to me. For now, the pc is running at 30w idle, and I would like to reduce it to maybe 20w.
I had in my mind to probably upgrade the cpu to a i5-8600 or i7-8700 for x265 transcoding support. And probably finally upgrading the PSU to a quite and more efficient one at low power (maybe corsair rm550x but always out of stock).
PS: only for personal use, no massive sharing with family and friends planned.
Any advices ?
| Type | Item |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor |
| CPU Cooler | be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 CPU Cooler |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 CL15 Memory |
| Memory | Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 CL15 Memory |
| Storage | Silicon Power P34A60 256 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive |
| Storage | Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive |
| Storage | Seagate Exos X16 16 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive |
| Case | Chieftec CI-01B-OP MicroATX Desktop Case |
| Power Supply | No name bronze PSU |
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