trusselo 220 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 (edited) they sickness is called "data hoarding" and many of us here have it. I picked up an HP DL360 G5 for 175$ just because i could. Dual Quad Xenon 16GB ram, dual redundant PSUs, 6 internal SSF hdd bays, 2x single port HBA 4GB fiber cards Deal. Came out of a bank, sold at bulk at auction, bought off kijiji (canadian craigslist) for 175$ clean, no dust, mint condition. bought that as i was buying 4x 5TB drives for a RAID5 setup in my other server with an LSI megaraid card. Edited May 24, 2015 by trusselo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Immediately upgraded this to 48GB of RAM my actual Emby server is a Dell R710 with Dual Xeon X5570's 48GB of Ram, 2x15k 146GB sas drives in Raid 0 for the OS/App's and 6x10k 900GB SAS drives in RAID5 for Emby to use for transcoding/metadata/cache etc. This one I just got is simply for storage and media ingestion nothing else. It can handle between 6-10 transcode sessions simultaneously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashkelly 62 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Asked about shipping to Canada about a week ago and never got a response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Asked about shipping to Canada about a week ago and never got a response hmm weird....they got right back to me on my issue I ran into. I dunno....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashkelly 62 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Asked about shipping to Canada about a week ago and never got a response hmm weird....they got right back to me on my issue I ran into. I dunno....... Neither do I, but I will be trying again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) Alright so here it is in the Rack, The Dell above it is my dedicated Emby Server. It does Emby and nothing else. Edited June 4, 2015 by JeremyFr79 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWebsmith 598 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 well.. im joining the fray here... i have a new toy that im planning out the best use for in my setup new incoming box dell r910 4U server.. 4proc(32cores)/64gb/etc at the very least im gonna look to replace my current emby server/sab/sb/cp/metabrowser appservers (and likely my..*cough* plex box).. probably onto separate vms (emby and the downloading/meta should be separate i think) think i should stick with esxi? (likely vms will run mostly windows, maybe some linux vms) wondering if i should try out proxmox? @@fantaxp7 i know you'll have an opinion here lol all media is still going to remain on my unraid boxes.. 22tb now for movies/music and 27tb in tv content.. i have issues.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 well.. im joining the fray here... i have a new toy that im planning out the best use for in my setup new incoming box dell r910 4U server.. 4proc(32cores)/64gb/etc at the very least im gonna look to replace my current emby server/sab/sb/cp/metabrowser appservers (and likely my..*cough* plex box).. probably onto separate vms (emby and the downloading/meta should be separate i think) think i should stick with esxi? (likely vms will run mostly windows, maybe some linux vms) wondering if i should try out proxmox? @@fantaxp7 i know you'll have an opinion here lol all media is still going to remain on my unraid boxes.. 22tb now for movies/music and 27tb in tv content.. i have issues.. Nice! I have used both esxi and proxmox. I use proxmox because we use it at work. Both are good. I prefer proxmox after having used it longer, it being open source and is very easy to use. proxmox has zfs built into it now which is awesome, though I know you are happy with unraid. Just a good option should you want to try it one day. I don't have a clear cut "this one is better because" answer for you unfortunately. But I think your headed into the right direction with having separate VM's for your services. Helps to isolate issues and if there are any crashes or vulnerabilities it will be only on that VM. There are some limitations with esxi if I remember correctly with the ram, so keep that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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