iamspartacus 40 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 (edited) Having just recently migrated my Plex setup over to Emby, I'm wondering what kind of servers people are working with here. With Plex I regularly had 6-10 users per night streaming (about 75% of those transcodes) simultaneously with regular sync/conversion transcodes happening every night with no hangups on my Xeon D-1541. Can I expect the same with Emby? Who else puts their server to work and with what kind of hardware? What has your experience been like? Edited September 26, 2017 by iamspartacus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 I hear @@pir8radio running for the keyboard... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediacowboy 438 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46386-Show-Off-Your-Server-Rack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamspartacus 40 Posted September 26, 2017 Author Share Posted September 26, 2017 https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46386-Show-Off-Your-Server-Rack Nice! Added my rack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 (edited) Having just recently migrated my Plex setup over to Emby, I'm wondering what kind of servers people are working with here. With Plex I regularly had 6-10 users per night streaming (about 75% of those transcodes) simultaneously with regular sync/conversion transcodes happening every night with no hangups on my Xeon D-1541. Can I expect the same with Emby? Who else puts their server to work and with what kind of hardware? What has your experience been like? I hear @@pir8radio running for the keyboard... lol, Uh the most concurrent all transcodes I've had was 16, I gave up testing more than that because I would need clients at multiple locations, for bandwidth. My hardware info is in my post signature. I also run behind cloudflare and my own NGINX proxies. My server sits off site in a data center with two 1gb internet connections. I do all of my transcodes from an xenon processor, however if I had it to do over again I would look into one of those GPU servers loaded with a few Nvidia cards. Any particular stats you are looking for? Edited September 26, 2017 by pir8radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Why must you all create threads like this? Is it simply to torture me? Must resist the Dark side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Why must you all create threads like this? Is it simply to torture me? Must resist the Dark side... You only need equipment to meet your needs. Anything else is pure overkill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 You only need equipment to meet your needs. Anything else is pure overkill Yes... but having hardware that currently meets my needs doesn't help any with the drooling... I need to get back on my "budget" rack project. I have most of the stuff to do it now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 You should always have far more than you need. And when you achieve that, buy more. I want to rebuild my server 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamspartacus 40 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 lol, Uh the most concurrent all transcodes I've had was 16, I gave up testing more than that because I would need clients at multiple locations, for bandwidth. My hardware info is in my post signature. I also run behind cloudflare and my own NGINX proxies. My server sits off site in a data center with two 1gb internet connections. I do all of my transcodes from an xenon processor, however if I had it to do over again I would look into one of those GPU servers loaded with a few Nvidia cards. Any particular stats you are looking for? That's exactly what I was looking for. I was able to do about 12 concurrent transcodes in testing on Plex so knowing that Emby can handle it tells me that the hardware will be the limiting factor so that's great. Which Xeon's are you using (I assume you're using dual socket)? You should always have far more than you need. And when you achieve that, buy more. I want to rebuild my server This is so true. I was future proof the heck out of my builds even though I know I'll be upgrading before I hit their limit . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I've thought about using dual Xeons for a while. Here's a question. Does Windows 10 support dual xeon processors? I don't really want to use win server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcrdev 251 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 I've thought about using dual Xeons for a while. Here's a question. Does Windows 10 support dual xeon processors? I don't really want to use win server. All Windows 10 versions support upto 2 physical CPUs and upto 256 cores (x64 only), enterprise and server support slightly more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamspartacus 40 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 I've thought about using dual Xeons for a while. Here's a question. Does Windows 10 support dual xeon processors? I don't really want to use win server. This I can't confirm. While I have a Windows 2k16 domain at home, all my major services like Emby, etc. are on Linux VM's running on ESXi hosts and they can certainly utilize dual Xeons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Thanks guys. I'm definitely going to look at getting dual xeons, now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamspartacus 40 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 Thanks guys. I'm definitely going to look at getting dual xeons, now I've thought about it many times but being that my server (and rack) are at home and I want to limit power output (as it affects heat and thus noise) as much as possible I went with an all single socket Xeon D cluster. 25w-45w CPUs and i get pretty amazing results considering the power usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 One of the reasons I've been thinking about this is using a server mobo. They have more PCIe slots. I need to do a bit of research. I may take a closer look at the ryzen CPUs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 That's exactly what I was looking for. I was able to do about 12 concurrent transcodes in testing on Plex so knowing that Emby can handle it tells me that the hardware will be the limiting factor so that's great. Which Xeon's are you using (I assume you're using dual socket)? I have a dual socket server however I only have one cpu populated. I've never needed more than 5-8 concurrent transcodes. This is the CPU I run: https://ark.intel.com/products/75266/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2470-v2-25M-Cache-2_40-GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamspartacus 40 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 I have a dual socket server however I only have one cpu populated. I've never needed more than 5-8 concurrent transcodes. This is the CPU I run: https://ark.intel.com/products/75266/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2470-v2-25M-Cache-2_40-GHz Nice. CPU Passmark of that looks pretty on part with my Xeon D-1541 so I'm glad to know I shouldn't have any issues with my CPU limiting me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 (edited) Uuuummm... I want one of thesehttps://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074CBJHCT/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1506543726&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=ryzen+threadripper&dpPl=1&dpID=51XuNc6gL8L&ref=plSrchTime to sell one of my switches Edited September 28, 2017 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overseer 66 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 This I can't confirm. While I have a Windows 2k16 domain at home, all my major services like Emby, etc. are on Linux VM's running on ESXi hosts and they can certainly utilize dual Xeons. I'm running Win2012R2 Essentials (but not in domain, using the connector instead) and have been contemplating moving up to 2k16 Essentials, which I have through the Microsoft Imagine program (formerly DreamSpark). Is yours an upgrade from a prior server version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Does Windows 10 support dual xeon processors? Yes, I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Yes, I do. You do?!?! Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Yes, I do. But does FFMPEG utilize both CPU's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade72 22 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hardware: HP DL360 2x Xeon E5-2648L (8 core/16 thread) @ 1.8Ghz 128GB ECC RAM 4x 3TB SAS HDD Drobo 5N NAS 5x 3TB SATA HDD Software: Proxmox >Pfsense >Organizr >Emby >Ombi I have my domain setup though CloudFlare which points to my Squid reverse proxy which is on my PFSense box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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