The upgrade time has come

[crashkelly 62]

Good day all,

Well unfortunately one of the machines in my rack has decided it is time to finally R.I.P.. I had two machines, one dedicated for Emby and one dedicated for media "organization", it is the later that died after about 15 years of use. Although it does suck, it does present the opportunity to build a newer, still dedicated, Emby server and take advantage of tech upgrades over the past 6ish years, the age of my current Emby server, and move the current Emby hardware into the "organization" role.

Although likely overkill, I have specced out the following:

• Intel Core i5-14600K - Core i5 14th Gen 14-Core (6P+8E) LGA 1700 125W Intel UHD Graphics 770 Processor
• ASUS B760M-AYW WIFI D4 II LGA 1700 Intel B760 Micro ATX Motherboard
• G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C18D-32GVK
• Team Group T-FORCE G50 M.2 2280 512GB PCIe 4.0 x4 with NVMe 1.4 TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FFE512G0C129
  • For OS and software

Wanting to do a sanity check to make sure I am not missing anything obvious.

System will be/is feed media from a 45-bay Supermicro storage JBOD and has multiple, say 10, external users as well as 2 internal users.

Emby is currently running on Win11 Pro and will be again after the upgrade.

Anyway, thanks for any input

Cheers

Edited 18 hours ago by crashkelly
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[RanmaCanada 582]

it's a little overkill. If you want to save money, just do what I did and grab a laptop off eBay with a smashed screen. 12th gen or higher is all that's really needed.

I have mine being fed by a 24 bay UNRAID server.

[crashkelly 62]

Thanks for the reply.

New hardware is going in the existing rack mounted case so want to go with a new mobo and whatnot.

Chers and thanks again

[TMCsw 292]

I would avoid a ‘K’ model processor (no cooler included), as it will require a significant 3rd-party cooler (many will not even fit in a rack mount) to take advantage of any performance benefits; they are also power-hungry. And definitely don’t get an ‘F’ model.

[yocker 1850]

Way overkill just for an Emby server.
The machine i have dedicated to Emby is just a small dell workstation i bought for around 50$ and it handles everything that has been thrown at it so far, multiple transcodes, end credit detection and much more.

If all the machine has to do is run pure Emby and nothing else i would:
Buy some small computer with an Intel CPU for the iGPU (not older than the 8xxx generation), stay at 8-16GB of memory and then use the saved money on some storage or something else you want.  
You can pretty much get old Dell computers thrown at you that can do the job without trouble. Replace the fans for some low noise, install Linux and you're off!

If you still insist on buying an overkill computer you might change your mind when you see the price of memory and SSD storage.