Steven Becker
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- May 18, 2016
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TL;DR: Does TheServerStore's SV-SAS3 work well for TN assuming I want to throw just 4 WD Red drives in it?
They promote a custom build with all but the drives, and that's what I need. Is there better bang for the buck out there? 20-cores is overkill, and this monster is likely pretty loud.
Minus the drives (I want to reuse my Reds), my budget is around $1000. It'll be in the next room from me, so noise is a consideration.
I'm looking to refresh my TN build. My old, custom build from random parts had an i3-3220 CPU, 16GB RAM, and 4x4TB WD Red. It's quiet and has run great for years, but I barely have enough RAM to run a couple linux VMs (where I write apps that play games for me as I'm an automation freak), a half dozen TN plugins where Plex is the most used, and an extra jail where I run Cacti for graphing or something else not covered in plugins. I do have Plexpass, a couple tuners for recording live TV, and a library of movies. All of this works fine across a home network though my media is generally stored in 1080 and not transcoded. I can provide more details if desired, but the goal is to get a little better processing power to distribute to maybe one more VM, and increased RAM for that as well.
They promote a custom build with all but the drives, and that's what I need. Is there better bang for the buck out there? 20-cores is overkill, and this monster is likely pretty loud.
Minus the drives (I want to reuse my Reds), my budget is around $1000. It'll be in the next room from me, so noise is a consideration.
I'm looking to refresh my TN build. My old, custom build from random parts had an i3-3220 CPU, 16GB RAM, and 4x4TB WD Red. It's quiet and has run great for years, but I barely have enough RAM to run a couple linux VMs (where I write apps that play games for me as I'm an automation freak), a half dozen TN plugins where Plex is the most used, and an extra jail where I run Cacti for graphing or something else not covered in plugins. I do have Plexpass, a couple tuners for recording live TV, and a library of movies. All of this works fine across a home network though my media is generally stored in 1080 and not transcoded. I can provide more details if desired, but the goal is to get a little better processing power to distribute to maybe one more VM, and increased RAM for that as well.