Okay, hopefully this will be my last thread on the matter before I I make a purchase. So I've been going back and forth and I just can't decide what it is that I want to do.
I have three options and I keep bouncing back and forth between the three but my main point of concern is RAM capacity. Right now and for the foreseeable future my storage setup will be as follows:
---Two 1/2tb drives (mirrored) for backup purposes (photos, documents, etc...)
---Two raidz2 arrays consisting of five 8tb drives each (currently I don't have this, but I think this will be the max I'll ever need to go during the lifetime of the server) intended for media storage and streaming via plex.
So would 32gb of ram be sufficient for my needs assuming I leave the movies uncompressed (so 30-40gb each), and assuming 4K bluray rips will be like 80gb each (probably?) and assuming there will be 4 clients streaming at any one time (at most).
And would backing up my server to a second (offsite) server increase the ram requirements -- if so how much would k need then?
My three options are spend $370 for a haswell i3 system (x10ssl), $510 for a skylake i3 system (x11ssm), or $515 for a Xeon 2603v3 (x99) system. (All using 16gb ECC with the haswell i3 limited to 32gb of ram, skylake i3 limited to 64gb, and the Xeon e5 limited to 128gb). The Xeon seems like an all around better choice than a Skylake i3 other than the fact that the Skylake build uses a more standard server config.
I have three options and I keep bouncing back and forth between the three but my main point of concern is RAM capacity. Right now and for the foreseeable future my storage setup will be as follows:
---Two 1/2tb drives (mirrored) for backup purposes (photos, documents, etc...)
---Two raidz2 arrays consisting of five 8tb drives each (currently I don't have this, but I think this will be the max I'll ever need to go during the lifetime of the server) intended for media storage and streaming via plex.
So would 32gb of ram be sufficient for my needs assuming I leave the movies uncompressed (so 30-40gb each), and assuming 4K bluray rips will be like 80gb each (probably?) and assuming there will be 4 clients streaming at any one time (at most).
And would backing up my server to a second (offsite) server increase the ram requirements -- if so how much would k need then?
My three options are spend $370 for a haswell i3 system (x10ssl), $510 for a skylake i3 system (x11ssm), or $515 for a Xeon 2603v3 (x99) system. (All using 16gb ECC with the haswell i3 limited to 32gb of ram, skylake i3 limited to 64gb, and the Xeon e5 limited to 128gb). The Xeon seems like an all around better choice than a Skylake i3 other than the fact that the Skylake build uses a more standard server config.
- Haswell i3 - $370
- i3-4130 ($110) (and only upgrade to an i3 because buying a G3258 would be silly I think)
- Supermicro X10SSL-F-O ($140)
- 16gb ECC DDR3 ($110)
- Skylake i3 - $510
- i3-6100 ($120)
- Supermicro X11SSM-F-O ($210)
- 16gb non-registered ECC DDR4 ($140)
- SSD ($40)
- Xeon E5 - $515
- Xeon E5 2603v3 ($220)
- Asrock X99 Extreme4 ($165)
- 16gb registered ECC ($115)
- Cooler Master Hyper T4 ($15)
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