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[Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ch00f to c/[email protected]

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I've been running a headless Ubuntu server for about 10 years or so. At first, it was just a file/print server, so I bought a super low power motherboard/processor to cut down on the energy bill. It's a passively cooled Intel Celeron J3455 "maxed out" with 16BG of RAM.

Since then it's ballooned into a Plex/Shinobi/Photoprism/Samba/Frigate/MQTT/Matrix/Piwigo monster. It has six drives in RAID6 and a 7th for system storage (three of the drives are through a PCI card). I'm planning on moving my server closet, and I'll be upgrading the case into a rack-mount style case. While I'm at it, I figured I could upgrade the hardware as well. I was curious what I should look for in hardware.

I've built a number of gaming PCs in the past, but I've never looked at server hardware. What features should I look for? Also, is there anything specific (besides a general purpose video card) that I can buy to speed up video encoding? It'd be nice to be able to real-time transcode video with Plex.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Video encoding you've really got 2 clear options: Either a 8th gen or newer consumer Intel chip with integrated graphics for QuickSync support or toss a GPU in there. You can also rely on raw CPU cycles for video transcode but that's wildly energy inefficient in comparison.

I've heard good things about how anything AM4 compares to x99 era Intel on both raw performance and performance per watt, but I have no personal anecdata to share.

Personally I'm currently eyeing up a gaming computer refresh as the opportunity to refresh my primary server with the old components from the gaming computer, but I'm also starting with literal ewaste I scrounged for free, so pretty much anything is big upgrade.

[–] ch00f 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

So my current processor has QuickSync. Are there generations of quicksync? Would a newer implementation be faster? There's not a lot of data out there. It seems like QS support is either yes or no.

[–] stankmut 1 points 11 months ago

Newer generations have decoders/encoders for more codecs. 8th gen Intel Core cpus have good HEVC support while you need the more recent gens for good AV1 support.

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