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[–] zahel@cosmere.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just added 5x18TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS (CMR) drives to my build.

it's a retired desktop/gaming pc

  • Ryzen 5600x
  • Radeon 580 gpu
  • 3x4tb zfs raidz1 array
  • 5x18tb zfs raidz1 array
  • 48gb RAM (to be upgraded)
  • Plex, jellyfin (and jellyvue) both behind a reverse proxy, other non related services like vaultwarden etc
  • Sonarr/radarr/lidarr/jackett via docker using private trackers, running mostly linuxserver.io docker images
  • Proxmox

Edit: along with the 5 new drives, switched to a fractal R5 case to accommodate the amount of hard drives

[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been having a hard time finding an r5 case (I haven't looked real hard, but when I have they've been out of stock or very expensive)

[–] zahel@cosmere.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh! I'm mixing this up with the r7 XL for it's "storage layout".

[–] zahel@cosmere.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the r7 xl is crazy, and pretty pricey.

A little overkill for my needs at this point in time as well. R5 is midtower and I didn’t feel like going full tower.

[–] Wilshire@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched from a rack mount to an R5 case and it's a lot more practical.

[–] zahel@cosmere.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Rack mount is cool but I don’t have the space for that

[–] harpuajim@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

My Plex server using parts from 2013

  • i7 3770s
  • H61 mobo
  • 16GB RAM
  • Rosewood HIVE PSU
  • 7TB HDD storage
  • 256GB SSD storage
  • upgraded PCie network card

It was an old business PC that used a celeron which didn't handle Plex streams very well but I upgraded the H61 BIOS to accept 3rd gen i7 CPUs and the 3770s does a great job even with multiple streams going at once.

Besides Plex it's basically my seedbox and I have F@H running on 2 cores 24/7 to make use of the fact that it's always on. It's such a simple machine but I love it.

[–] Sharmat 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At first, I was running in a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB model, and it ran fine but my ISP provided router is terrible and is also behind a CGNAT, so for it to work was always a pain.

Now, I’ve picked up a VPS, it’s running:

  • 4 vCPUs of an Xeon E5-2695 v4
  • 4GBs of RAM
  • 100GB of NVMe SSD

And the media is still in my raspberry pi, running a 4TB HDD, and is connect to the VPS via a samba share folder.

[–] zahel@cosmere.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much is that VPS costing you monthly?

[–] Wilshire@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i5-9400

2 x 8GB DDR4

128 GB SSD (OS)

500GB SSD (apps, downloads, transcodes)

8 x 8TB HDDs (24TB RAID-5, 16TB RAID-0)

Adaptec ASR-5805 RAID card

Fractal Define R5 case

Windows, Plex, Radarr, Sonar, Tdarr, qBit

This is primarily a file server for my main Plex server that has a Nvidia 1660s and i9-10850K.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago
  • Plex docker running in unraid
  • 10th gen i7 salvaged out of a Dell optiplex. Using the chips qsv to transcode
  • slowly replacing all my 10 year old 2tb drives with 16tb exos
  • various containers darrs unmanic for x265 conversion
  • have the darrs watching for Plex watchlist which means I don't have to run ombi anymore.