m4ff3w
m4ff3w GRM+ Memberand UberDork
7/26/22 11:16 p.m.

My Plex server was getting a little long in the tooth and I've been itching to upgrade for awhile now...

So I did!

Stock Image, I only have a single Quadro P5000

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What amazes me about this box is how quiet it is.  I used to run servers in my home office, but got tired of the noise so I shifted all my storage to the cloud and have only been doing compute for Plex locally - my power bill dropped like a rock.

I really like this Dell box.  

dculberson
dculberson MegaDork
7/27/22 7:44 a.m.

36 cores! Nice. 

lnlogauge
lnlogauge HalfDork
7/27/22 10:06 a.m.

Does plex really need that, or does this serve other purposes?

m4ff3w
m4ff3w GRM+ Memberand UberDork
7/27/22 10:49 a.m.
lnlogauge said:

Does plex really need that, or does this serve other purposes?

My current plex "server" is a dell laptop with integrated intel graphics.

But it struggles with any 4k transcoding.

The CPUs and ram are way overkill...  but I'm in it for sub $900, so why not.  

I have dozens of friends with access to it.  It gets hit pretty hard.   There's 150TB worth of media there.

TR7 (Forum Supporter)
TR7 (Forum Supporter) Reader
7/27/22 11:00 a.m.

Thats a nice buy, Ive been looking to upgrade my ancient z820 workstation, but its still chugging along nicely... 

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