mediacowboy 438 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 DAMN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 So have done some MAJOR upgrades again to the setup. Top to bottom - CIsco 2960S 48 Port Gigabit Layer 2 POE Switch Swan NVR-7250 - Security Camera Recorder - 4TB of Storage. Belkin 8 Port KVM Yamaha RX-A800 Aventage Receiver 7x90 Watts - Run's Main theater room APC J35B Power Conditioner/1500 KVA Battery Backup Main HTPC - AMD A8 7750, 16GB Memory 64GB SSD (OS/APPS) 2x3TB Hitachi Ultrastars (Recorded TV) LG HD-DVD/Blu Ray Drive, Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI-e & Ceton InfinitTV 4 USB (8 Tuners total) Router - Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen III - (1) Xeon 5148, 4GB Memory, 2x146GB 15k SAS (Mirrored OS) Runs PFSense 2.2.4 PDUs - Leviton Domain Controller - Cisco UCS C200 M2 - (1) Xeon X5570, 24GB Memory, 80GB HDD (OS) 160GB HDD (Nighly Baremetal Backups) Bonded Gigabit Emby Server - Dell PowerEdge R810 - (4) Xeon L7555 (32 Cores/64Threads total), 128GB Memory, 2x146GB 15k SAS (Mirrored OS/Apps) 4x900GB 10k SAS (RAID 5 - Metadata/cache/transcoding) Bonded Gigabit Storage - Qnap TS-809U - iSCSI Target - 4x 500GB (RAID 5 - Torrent Work Drives) 4x1TB (RAID 5 - Nightly Backups for all machines on network)Bonded Gigabit Storage - Qnap TS-809U - ISCSI Target - 8x1.5TB (RAID 5 - TV) Bonded Gigabit Main FIle Server - SuperMicro CS-846 - (2) Xeon L5520, 48GB Memory, 1x64GB SSD (OS/APPS), 24x1TB Drives (RAID 50 - File storage, User Folders, Main EMBY Library) Quad Gigabit Bonded NIC Battery Backup - APC Smart UPS 750 Not Pictured - APC Smart UPS 3000, APC 1500KVA, Engenius Enterprise Wireless N WAP with 5 watt output, Xfinity Gateway (175/35 Service) This setup feeds, 2 Laptops, 3 Tablets, 4 Phones, 1 Remote Roku 3, 1 remote Roku Stick, a XBOne, Nexus Player, Xbox 360, and the Main HTPC. Love the setup. Do you duplicate your media library to one of the other servers? If so what software do you use? I've set up a second server for my own library with the intention of doing either weekly or monthly backups. Trying to limit the work that gets done during a backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 No media content is not duplicated at this time, Everything else though on my network including bare metal machine images is backed up nightly. This is also realtime backed up offsite as well, so I have my local backups, plus backups through a cloud backup provider for SHTF scenario like the whole house burning down. Media is only "protected" by RAID's maybe when I'm rich and can afford say an EMC Storage cabinet in my home and the power bill to run it I'll start duplicating media lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scharbag 15 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 (edited) My system: Samsung 55" 1080p LED B&W Natilus 802 B&W HTM1 B&W DS3 surrounds Velodyne DD-12 sub Krell FPB-400cx stereo amp Classe SSP-800 processor Classe CA-5100 5 channel amp Classe CDP-202 CD Wyrestorm 8X8 HDMI matrix Control 4 schtuff and misc other thingers My Server: FreeNAS 9.3 Tyan S5512WGM2NR (integral 9211-8i v20IT)Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i (9211-8i v20IT)Intel RES2SV240 SAS Expander (LSI LSISAS2x)Intel Xeon E3 1230V232GB ECC DDR3Norco 4220 with Corsair 750W Power Supply7 @ 3TB Seagate ST3000DM00111 @ 4TB Seagate ST4000DM0002 @ Intel 80GB SSD2 @ Crucial 480GB SSD (used for VBox) I run Emby on the FreeNAS server in a Jail. System runs awesome!! Thank you so much to all the great Emby developers for such an awesome software package. Cheers, Edited October 31, 2015 by scharbag 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 ^you need a projector!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scharbag 15 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 ^you need a projector!! I used to be much more into audio than video, so the TV was just sorta there. I am now becoming more of a video kinda guy. I am planning to upgrade to a bigger TV some day. All my back end gear can only support 1080p right now. I will have to upgrade my SSP-800 to allow for 4K, and find some sources that support it. In time I will have an ~70"-80" 4K TV on the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abobader 2947 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I used to be much more into audio than video, so the TV was just sorta there. I am now becoming more of a video kinda guy. I am planning to upgrade to a bigger TV some day. All my back end gear can only support 1080p right now. I will have to upgrade my SSP-800 to allow for 4K, and find some sources that support it. In time I will have an ~70"-80" 4K TV on the wall. Since you using Krell, indeed you are audio guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Nothing as fancy as some of your setups but building a new Media Server for Emby this weekend. Waiting for the Processor and SSD to be delivered. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 The shape of things to come 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediacowboy 438 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 What type case is that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 What type case is thatLian li d8000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14916 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Holy cow - is that 16 4TB drives...?? Are those hot-swap drive bays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWebsmith 598 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 HHHHHOOOOTTTTT nice case breadman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37084 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Is that Lian Li case already yours or did you borrow those screenshots? If you haven't already purchased, check these guys out: http://www.caselabs-store.com/ They let you customize every single aspect of it. It's a tinkerer's dream case. So this one would probably be an equivalent size: http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s8/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Holy cow - is that 16 4TB drives...?? Are those hot-swap drive bays? haha a bit of an illusion I suppose. I have 8 4tb drives which I am taking from my current system. This will be a unraid setup. From work I took 13 1tb drives. Since unraid plays nice with upgrading drives to a single array, I figure why not use as many as possible These are lian li's method of thumb screw and rubber vibration isolators. They slide in and out real easy but it is not a hot swap bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantaxp7 190 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Is that Lian Li case already yours or did you borrow those screenshots? If you haven't already purchased, check these guys out: http://www.caselabs-store.com/ They let you customize every single aspect of it. It's a tinkerer's dream case. So this one would probably be an equivalent size: http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s8/ I've drooled over those many a time. Customized all kinds of ways. It is my case, it is something of a "compromise". I wanted a case labs case, but this was much cheaper, still fantastic build quality and is perfect for my needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 i5 6500 - 3.2 ghz. 8 GB DDR4-2400 60GB SSD Boot Drive. 10 Terabytes of storage currently. Running Windows Server Essentials 2016 preview. 899 Movies, 10,000 Episodes. Transcoding HD Movies to a Roku takes 7-14%% of processor power. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-Highlander 145 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 (edited) Been meaning to post in here for a while now, but almost embarressed to now after seeing some of the emense systems some of you guys have. Anyway, here goes nothing... We have two client PC's permanently hooked up to TV's one in the living room and one in the bedroom, both running customised Windows 10 (with Windows Media Centre installed) instances with Emby for WMC and the downstairs one has dual TV cards fitted as we use it for all our TV recording and viewing (and some gaming when I can get away with it lol). Server (in the loft): i7 965 Processor (8 core 3.2Ghz) 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM 2 Drive RAID 1+0 system drives 16 Drive SATA RAID 6 array (4TB) 3 x 4TB USB 3 Drives and 4 x 2TB USB 3 drives connected via PCI-E USB 3 cards. 1500VA UPS unit to keep it alive through the hundreds of tiny power cuts we get living out in the sticks like we do. Small Gigabit switch with server dual homed to the rest of the house (one for main server and media system, one for Hyper-V VMs) Excuse the crappy quality camera phone pics taken from the loft ladder. Edited September 23, 2016 by Ian-Highlander 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony24 2 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Right now I have all my stuff on my main pc OSX Yosemite i7 4770K Corsairs h100i Asus Sabertooth z87 Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB DDR3 1600 Samsung Pro 128GB 3x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 1TB Seagate Barracuda Cooler Master CM 690 ll and soon pass it to this small rig, wasn't sure how far media I was gonna go for and so I just have this right now OSX Yosemite i3 4330 ASRock H97M Pro4 Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 2x2GB DDR3 1600 Samsung Pro 840 128GB NZXT H230 Not so fancy like you guys are... least you guys get good money. Not sure If i regret doing my media on OS X, least I'm safe from virus's but still wonder if windows would've been better. Enough to keep my stuff and stream is off is good enough for me, all I want is live tv and record stuff. (Direct TV) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSattler 387 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 (edited) Setup: ESXi Node 1: i7-4770s 32GB Memory nfiniband 40GB HBA, for 10Gb IPoIB to ESXi Storage Server ESXi Node 2: i7-3770 32GB Memory Infiniband 40GB HBA, for 10Gb IPoIB to ESXi Storage Server ESXI Storage Server: Win2k8R2 16GB Memory Raid 6 with 4 x 3TB Disks 10GB Memory for Caching, 128Gb SSD for Caching Infiniband 40Gb HBA, for 10Gg IPoIB to ESXi Nodes 24 Port Cisco GIGE Managed Switch Virtual Machines: Emby Server Win2k8R2 8 Cores 12GB Memory Mythbuntu Ubuntu 4 Cores 6GB Memory vCenter 4 Cores 6GB Memory Storage: Unraid 6 i3-2550 6GB Ram 32TB Storage Parity: 5TB Drive Data: 1 x 5TB, 5 x 4TB, 1 x 3TB, 2 x 2TB Clients: 1 x Intel J1900 Asus HTPC, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 65" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 55" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 32" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 32" 1 x Google Nexus Player with Emby App. Vizio 19 <Bathroom> 2 x Amazon Fire TV Stick with Emby App. Westinghouse 32" <Deck> Multiple IOS devices Edited November 23, 2015 by MSattler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spootdev 56 Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Focus? We don't need no focus! And ya, too lazy to type. https://youtu.be/vvXaGb6_RQI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polygon 0 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 This is my current machine where I host everything. Thinking of going with a dedicated rack mounted server soon. I used to have an HTPC but opted for the simplicity of a Roku. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snazy2000 342 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Setup: ESXi Node 1: i7-4770s 32GB Memory nfiniband 40GB HBA, for 10Gb IPoIB to ESXi Storage Server ESXi Node 2: i7-3770 32GB Memory Infiniband 40GB HBA, for 10Gb IPoIB to ESXi Storage Server ESXI Storage Server: Win2k8R2 16GB Memory Raid 6 with 4 x 3TB Disks 10GB Memory for Caching, 128Gb SSD for Caching Infiniband 40Gb HBA, for 10Gg IPoIB to ESXi Nodes 24 Port Cisco GIGE Managed Switch Virtual Machines: Emby Server Win2k8R2 8 Cores 12GB Memory Mythbuntu Ubuntu 4 Cores 6GB Memory vCenter 4 Cores 6GB Memory Storage: Unraid 6 i3-2550 6GB Ram 32TB Storage Parity: 5TB Drive Data: 1 x 5TB, 5 x 4TB, 1 x 3TB, 2 x 2TB Clients: 1 x Intel J1900 Asus HTPC, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 65" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 55" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 32" 1 x Raspberry Pi2, OpenElec/Kodi 16 Beta 2. Samsung 32" 1 x Google Nexus Player with Emby App. Vizio 19 <Bathroom> 2 x Amazon Fire TV Stick with Emby App. Westinghouse 32" <Deck> Multiple IOS devices What Infiniband cards / cables do you use. Do they direct connect or through switch? Sent from my HTC One M8s using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSattler 387 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 What Infiniband cards / cables do you use. Do they direct connect or through switch? Sent from my HTC One M8s using Tapatalk Am using the Mellanox MHQH29-XTX 40Gpbs Adapters, which connect at 10Gbps IPoIB. I opted to go for direct connect because of the expensive of a switch, $500. Currently I have my Windows Storage Server running two instances of OpenSM one for each connection to each ESXi server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spootdev 56 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Am using the Mellanox MHQH29-XTX 40Gpbs Adapters, which connect at 10Gbps IPoIB. I opted to go for direct connect because of the expensive of a switch, $500. Currently I have my Windows Storage Server running two instances of OpenSM one for each connection to each ESXi server. 10G limit is in ethernet mode......not infiniband mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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