Show off your server!

[Betonhaus 18]

Xeon E5 2696 v3 (18 cores, 36 threads)

8x16gb RAM for a total of 128gb ram

Western Digital Black SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Western Digital Green 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Western Digital DC HC530 14 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (x4)

Sparkle ECO Arc A310 4 GB Video Card (transcoding)

Quadro K6000 12 GB Video Card (remote gaming, will be upgraded)

Antec P101 Silent ATX Mid Tower Case

Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

[Luke 42077]

That's a high powered server. Thanks for sharing.

[Betonhaus 18]

It is also running a Windows VM with steam installed and it's own SSD and GPU dedicated with it, but although Steam Remote play works very well it's a hassle to keep the VM unlocked and it's single user so I'm planning to switch to Wolf/Games on Whales for game streaming. I was able to get the cpu, motherboard, and 64gb of ram for AliExpress for like $200 and built the system around it.

 

I was wondering what kind of systems others are using for their servers?

Edited December 19, 2024 by Betonhaus

[Luke 42077]

@all4dom  @scb99  @rbjtech  @Gilgamesh_48

[Guest]

Lots of us showing off in the early days

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/6985-show-off-your-rig/

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46386-show-off-your-server-rack/

Edited December 19, 2024 by generiq

[rbjtech 5284]

Other than for perhaps CPU transcoding - emby as a stand alone product doesn't need a huge amount of memory, nor cores - on linux you can get away with 2GB and 2 cores and it will run perfectly well for the average sized media collection.    The main workload for emby (or any media type application where 10-100GB Media files are the norm) is the disk I/O - so a strong disk sub-system is #1 - well above any above average cpu or memory requirements.

[Betonhaus 18]

Yeah the biggest limiting factor seems to be bandwidth. If your motherboard has a wifi card slot you can usually get an Ethernet adapter that connects to it to get 2.5G or more depending on the PCIe version of the slot

[yocker 1247]

Unraid.

Ryzen 3900x 64GB ECC memory. 10Gb nic. Arc A380 graphics card.
3 x 2 TB nvme raidz1 cache
1 x 1 TB nvme scratch drive for transcoding and other stuff.
4 x 16 TB Seagate Exos

Use the server for all kinda of things, Emby is just one of those things.

Planning to upgrade with more hard drive space soon, running rather low. maybe new CPU as well to speed up other things.

Got many more computers (might have a problem )but for server use this is my main one.

 

Edited December 19, 2024 by yocker

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

@all4dom  @scb99  @rbjtech  @Gilgamesh_48

My server is not one of those sleek show off servers but rather it is a single computer with a bunch of external USB drives attached. It is not "pretty" but it works quite well. Displaying a picture of it would just show a box with a bunch of smaller boxes on a set of shelves nearby and a nest of wires connecting them. I do not really like the measuring contests that are so common in the world today.

[Betonhaus 18]

1 minute ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

My server is not one of those sleek show off servers but rather it is a single computer with a bunch of external USB drives attached. It is not "pretty" but it works quite well. Displaying a picture of it would just show a box with a bunch of smaller boxes on a set of shelves nearby and a nest of wires connecting them. I do not really like the measuring contests that are so common in the world today.

A good server and a bad server is highly subjective. I could say that mine ended up being overkill for my current use. Having a pretty server is usually not as much of a concern as how it's configured. Mine has some bandwidth limits, and I'm limited by my internet connection because my city never invested in fibre Internet for old neighborhoods so I only get like 100 Meg upload speeds to go with my 1 gig downloads 

[Guest]

Here's one from a few years back

 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

59 minutes ago, Betonhaus said:

A good server and a bad server is highly subjective. I could say that mine ended up being overkill for my current use. Having a pretty server is usually not as much of a concern as how it's configured. Mine has some bandwidth limits, and I'm limited by my internet connection because my city never invested in fibre Internet for old neighborhoods so I only get like 100 Meg upload speeds to go with my 1 gig downloads 

My upload is only 10 Mbps and my download is 400 Mbps on a good day. I live fairly rural and fiber is out of the question and so is any speeds above what i get. I am envious of those that live in  big developed areas because most of those, in the USA, have good to great speeds available. It is rumored that by 2032-35 we may get 1 gig speeds here but I am unlikely to live that long.

The poor speeds are one reason, not the only one at all, that i do not share my server with anybody another is that I don't like most people well enough to share anything with them. However i do help many people that i do like set up their own servers. There are about 12-15 Emby servers near where I live that I helped set up. 

I do not care at all about neatness and i actually get comfort from exposed wires. Also every time I have tried to improve the "neatness" of my TV/computer setup something happens requiring me to tear everything apart and it is just too much trouble to keep spending time making things neat.

[yocker 1247]

25 minutes ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I do not care at all about neatness and i actually get comfort from exposed wires. Also every time I have tried to improve the "neatness" of my TV/computer setup something happens requiring me to tear everything apart and it is just too much trouble to keep spending time making things neat.

My whole house is a mess of wires precisely because of what you say. I can't be arsed cable managing when i'm just going to change everything later.
Only place that looks some what good is my living room as i do like to have visitors once in a while.

[Betonhaus 18]

I was successful in tucking away most of the ethernet cables going through the house, except for one that basically strings along the entryway wall.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

31 minutes ago, yocker said:

My whole house is a mess of wires precisely because of what you say. I can't be arsed cable managing when i'm just going to change everything later.
Only place that looks some what good is my living room as i do like to have visitors once in a while.

I want to thank you for forcing me to look up a simple word "arsed" as I had never, in my 77+ years, heard that word used the way you use it. 

For those that do not know but would like to it simply means "concerned" or "bothered." I pride myself on my ability to use words and i always welcome the opportunity to lean a new word or the usage thereof. 

My typing is pretty bad as I have a tendency to drop first and/or last letters of words as I type. That is not usually a problem but, sometimes, the missing letter(s) change the word into a completely different word when the firs or last letters are dropped. That problem has become worse as I have gotten into my upper 70s so I hope my posts usually at least rise to the level of understandable. 

Fortunately my ability to perform complex tasks is not compromised by my inability to type well. But "neatness" is a bit compromised so I always look a bit like a slob. 

But I like me, even if no one else does.

[Betonhaus 18]

Just now, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I want to thank you for forcing me to look up a simple word "arsed" as I had never, in my 77+ years, heard that word used the way you use it. 

For those that do not know but would like to it simply means "concerned" or "bothered." I pride myself on my ability to use words and i always welcome the opportunity to lean a new word or the usage thereof. 

My typing is pretty bad as I have a tendency to drop first and/or last letters of words as I type. That is not usually a problem but, sometimes, the missing letter(s) change the word into a completely different word when the firs or last letters are dropped. That problem has become worse as I have gotten into my upper 70s so I hope my posts usually at least rise to the level of understandable. 

Fortunately my ability to perform complex tasks is not compromised by my inability to type well. But "neatness" is a bit compromised so I always look a bit like a slob. 

But I like me, even if no one else does.

The phrase "[subject] can't be arsed to [verb]" is pretty established. 

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

1 minute ago, Betonhaus said:

The phrase "[subject] can't be arsed to [verb]" is pretty established. 

I have read something like 150 books this year and not one of them used "arsed" at all. In fact, before you used it, I have never read a single use of that word. In fact my spell checker does not recognize arsed as a correctly spelled word. I guess that proves that spell checkers are less than reliable. 
While I have never heard arsed used in the USA, I wonder if it is more common in the UK than it is here.

[Betonhaus 18]

1 hour ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I have read something like 150 books this year and not one of them used "arsed" at all. In fact, before you used it, I have never read a single use of that word. In fact my spell checker does not recognize arsed as a correctly spelled word. I guess that proves that spell checkers are less than reliable. 
While I have never heard arsed used in the USA, I wonder if it is more common in the UK than it is here.

https://www.google.com/search?q="cant+be+arsed+to"

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

7 minutes ago, Betonhaus said:

https://www.google.com/search?q="cant+be+arsed+to"

All I get from that link is:
 

This network is blocked due to unaddressed abuse complaints about malicious behavior. This page checks to see if it's really a human sending the requests and not a robot coming from this network.

IP address: 181.214.167.71
Time: 2024-12-20T02:26:33Z
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q="cant+be+arsed+to"

[Betonhaus 18]

Ok well moving on it seems there wasn't as much interest in a thread where people discuss their systems, or maybe I approached it from the wrong direction.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I have read something like 150 books this year and not one of them used "arsed" at all. In fact, before you used it, I have never read a single use of that word. In fact my spell checker does not recognize arsed as a correctly spelled word. I guess that proves that spell checkers are less than reliable. 
While I have never heard arsed used in the USA, I wonder if it is more common in the UK than it is here.

Arse is correct English. Ass is a donkey. I have the Oxford English dictionary on my phone and it lists the other dictionaries that they produce. The USA now has its own dictionary. So as far as the Oxford Dictionaries is concerned, the USA no longer speaks English. 

Edited December 20, 2024 by generiq

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

7 minutes ago, generiq said:

Arse is correct English. Ass is a donkey. I have the Oxford English dictionary on my phone and it lists the other dictionaries that they produce. The USA now has its own dictionary. So as far as the Oxford Dictionaries is concerned, the USA no longer speaks English. 

I NEVER said it was not correct. I said I have never heard it used or seen it in any book I have read except, now that I think about it, I may have read it in some older books published in England, but I have never seen or heard it used in the thousands of English language books I have read except for, maybe, one or two obscure ones published in England. 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I NEVER said it was not correct. I said I have never heard it used or seen it in any book I have read except, now that I think about it, I may have read it in some older books published in England, but I have never seen or heard it used in the thousands of English language books I have read except for, maybe, one or two obscure ones published in England. 

Interesting. Its been used many times on this forum. Bunch o' Brits on 'ere 

And now back to servers

Edited December 20, 2024 by generiq