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Upgrade advices for my home media server (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Selest1@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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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 ?

PCPartPicker Part List

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
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-11-26 11:25 EST-0500

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[–] CederGrass759@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You're going to simplify your life and your setup if you can avoid transcoding.

In a home environment, I see no need for transcoding anything (direct play of even 90 GB UHD HDR films is no problem to for example iPad, or iPhones or most modern TVs.

Make sure that subtitles are in .SRT format, and you'll never need transcoding for that either.

The ONLY time I see a potential need for transcoding would be if all you media is stored in maximum-quality 80GB rips, and you need to watch a movie on your phone while on the subway. If you use Plex, the easiest solution is to always download or rip you movies in two formats. One 80 GB maximum quality UHD 10 bit file, and one 720p 1 GB x265 file, that will be automatically selected if bandwidth is low. Violá, you'll never need transcoding! :-)