Chris2515 0 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 DELL POWEREDGE R820 2U SERVER - QUAD XEONE5-4620 V2 2.6GHZ OCTACORE CPUS - 256GB RAM Hi community, I am looking at buying the server and was wondering if any of you guys know if this would be able to run Unraid and Emby. I am setting up a media server and I am new to it all so any advice would be great. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37071 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Hi, as always it depends on how you use it, but yes that PowerEdge looks more than capable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4270 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Personally, a 10th or 11th Gen i5 or i7 will run rings around it for transcoding performance as they have an iGPU - Xeons do not. They also consume a fraction of the power - so unless you specifically need a large core count and large memory, then I would go for the i5/i7 desktop. These type of servers are 'cheap' because they are old power hungry tech - the core count is what draws people in, but even with 32 cores, the desktop iGPU will outperform it for transcoding (at a fraction of the power..) - Each Xeon is 95W - that 400W of power for all 4 if they are at 100% ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2515 0 Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 Hey gents, thanks for getting back to me. I decided to buy and get set up for Emby. Thanks for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37071 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Let us know how you get on. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRobi 159 Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 5 hours ago, Chris2515 said: Hey gents, thanks for getting back to me. I decided to buy and get set up for Emby. Thanks for the advice. You'll be fine! I've got dual e5-2690's and they handled transcoding "decently" for a single user. I did ultimately end up throwing in a nvidia card. I've now got a ton setup on this server and it doesn't break a sweat. So with quad cpu's.... you'll do just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2515 0 Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 Nice! That gives me more confidence to get it set up. I will post an update with what I found and let you guys know how it went and what I used. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 for the record, some Xeons have an iGPU, just not that run of chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 On 2/10/2022 at 10:58 PM, Chris2515 said: Nice! That gives me more confidence to get it set up. I will post an update with what I found and let you guys know how it went and what I used. Cheers Just wondering how your making out? How many disks have you stuffed in your server so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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