My Perfect Media Server isn't so perfect anymore...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2024
- I gave a consumer platform the old college try, but it just didn't work out. Find out why in part 1 of a new series on the channel about upgrading the servers at Badger Labs.
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I was mesmerized by the roller coaster tycoon in the background. I scoured your page for hints as to why, but i didn't find anything. I guess you're just a big fan?
I want to know this too! And is it a screensaver or video?
@@fillwe4600 It's the menu screen of RCT. I'm sure the game is just open on his computer. In OpenRCT2 you can choose what parks display on the menu screen and everything.
Rebuilding my home lab server with an Epyc 7302 for similar reasons, consumer pcie lanes just don't cut it when you need more then a gpu and nic.
Quite the upgrade from the Serverbuilds HP290s ! I am running 3 x HP 290 and an old Z420, but looking at X299. That EPIC is tempting.
I have that exact case but with all of the drive sleds. It's been in my server rack for my desktop for years. It's great!
It might just be me, but that docker whale plushie was eyeballing you the whole video.
Also I watched your ads and subbed because you are worthy 🤓😎
>2:46
>consumer platforms
2011v3 and 2066 were also consumer platforms.
i7-5830k has 40 lanes (PCIe 3.0).
i9-7900X has 44 lanes (PCIe 3.0).
2011v3 platform from 2014 can also the trick with 4nvme card splitting.
9:15 I WANT THE 7 HOURS LONG VIDEO now... (edited down to 30-40 minute parts of course) - thanks for the case link BTW, I was looking for something exactly like this a couple of years ago 🤓
Looking forward to this build
Lanes was a main reason I've stayed with X99 and X299. The next jump up seems extremely expensive for both the boards & the CPUs. But nonetheless, awesome setup! I love the Rosewill 4U cases. I've got 6 of them myself (and variants).
For the price they really are the benchmark in the space. ❤
as much as I loved x99 and 299 Epyc rome has become my go to for homelab stuff and siena will probably be next. I just wish they would make just one 4/8 core CPU with an igpu!
mauled by a badger making us wait....
Is that a regular badger or a honey badger?
A Sloth-Badger 😂. We need the QSV results video 😢
Nice! Quite the upgrade! 🍺 looking forward to the series!
What’s your plan on replacing QSV for HW video transcoding? I’m looking into doing somewhat the same journey, as I don’t like having everything on the same system. Up until recently I’ve only been looking at upgrade path’s that all require an QSV capable CPU. That really narrows the spectrum doesn’t it… The new Intel 12th gen and newer are great very powerful and energy efficient systems but they really lack in connectivity for my server needs.
So now I’m more and more looking at building a dedicated server with plenty cores and PCIe lanes, and then running a NUC type server with Iris Xe graphics as a dedicated HW transcoder and a few other things.
It’s the power budget though that sets me back some. I live in Northern Europe where we up until recently had practically free power but since the Ukraine war even we’ve been affected with high prices. Ironic since we produce TWh’s worth of hydro electric and wind power locally…
Anyway, I’ve never dipped my toe into AMDs CPU world before so it’ll be interesting to see where this ends up!
What’s the rough price point for that MB and CPU? $1,5K?
I’ve got the same motherboard with a 7302P for my NAS and it’s amazing! Lanes for days! Dual HBAs, 3x 4x4x4x4 NVMe cards, and a 10Gb NIC.
Looking forward to the next video!
Q: Is that a Roller Coaster Tycoon screen saver? How was that done?
Openrct2 menu screen
I'm on my 3rd consumer NAS now and a little over the limiting hardware and software that's generally supplied. I recently purchased a compact NAS case with 8 HDD slots and a celeron motherboard to go with it. I figured once I have a case, it's easy enough to upgrade the motherboard when newer ones become cheap enough.
Looking forward to your build and what you're going to run on it.
That connector you pointed out as "Slim sas" was oculink a pci-e connector. And do check the precise motherboard model, those minisas-hd connectors may well be connected to chipset SATA only.
power consumtion goes brrt
Can't be helped sometimes
Hey Alex, This board may require some wrangling with the fan speed control if you are going to use Noctua low speed fans as the low speed PWM will result in bad speed feedback and results in continual speed ramping
Very nice! interested on the power consumpotion I'm on the same boat regarding getting a new server (currently using an Asus Z270 with an Intel i7 on Proxmox 8)
I've been looking for a video like this. I'd like to build a system around the Epyc 7452. 128 PCI-e lanes is excellent. The Sonnet McFiver seems to be a nice addition to add connectivity if needed. Also, the Radeon Pro W6600, W7500 or W7600 should be excellent if you need a good single slot graphics card. Thanks for the video!
Question: When you switched to ProxMox as your base OS, and moved Morpheus to a VM, are you just passing through all the storage disks for your snapraid storage and ZFS storage?
Very similar to what I decided to go with lol. Except I have a 7302p and the h11 version of the motherboard. Pretty certain we got it from the same seller on eBay judging from the box. I also went with a sliger case 😂
This is the way... a MB with tones of PCI slots, low power, but not so low that its unusable as a primary server. I'm going to follow along for ideas next time I'm in the market to build a server
I am currently rocking dual 2011-3 (Haswell) with dual 18core Xeons and 512GB ram on a z10pe-d16 ws board with 6x PCIE x16 slots (which I think is x8 per if all are populated). 2011-3 chips and the cheaper Chinese boards are affordable... but specifically for home lab we are SHIFTING to recommending Epyc gen 2 OR Skylake hyperscale (especially right now 3.7Ghz boost chips) mostly because the prices has began to settle in. It seems between $500-700 you can get an EXCELLENT CPU-MOBO combo for either of those and it will DUST anything older when it comes to "enterprise" grade solutions (i.e. lots of PCIE and lots of ECC ram support).
My media server is overkill. It has a pair of E5-2697 V2's and 128 gigs of DDR3 ECC RAM and a RX580. Its all in a 20 bay 4U chassis. It started out as an my workstation and pulled double duty as my media server when I wasn't working with it. Now that I have a threadripper workstation, my dual xeon box only has the singular duty of serving media across my network or outside my network when I'm not at home.
I've always wanted to play with bifurcation but not willing to roll the dice on that many NVMe drives and one of those cards on the off-chance it doesn't work in either of my systems.
No problems running non-ecc memory? I'm planning an i3 13th gen build, as I already have the pc.
My media server is my old computer, Intel i7 4790k, 32GB RAM, Samsung 960 500GB NVMe boot/Plex metadata, an assortment of Seagate ironwolf / Pro drives for storage and RTX 2080 super for Steam game streaming and HW transcoding for Plex
Perfect bro as long as it does what want
While the performance naturally doesn't work out to be as good as a dedicate setup but the PCIE bridge card I got to connect NVME SSDs has worked out pretty well. I really need to do a review on it.
What card is that then?
@@ktzsystems I link to it from the "real world deployments" section of the mergerfs wiki. The Ceacent ANU28PE16. No bifurcation needed. 16x slot breaks out to 8 SFF8643 ports for use with SFF8643 to SFF8639 or similar cables for NVME. I've not tried it but it might work as a general PCIE bridge/multiplexer with the right cabling though the physical layout/setup of that would be a mess. They have other cards that provide similar setup. I see one now that gives you 4 oculink ports from a x8 physical pcie slot.
That’s really neat! Maybe there’s still hope for my lowly consumer board yet
Pls post details/links to your expansion card and NEW mobo.
Will do for the next video 😎
I’m looking for an arc or waiting for meteor lake on desktop because of quicksync with AV1 without the insane high gpu prices.
If you look at today's prices in AUD you'll know why
AUD prices were insane prior to the pandemic.
Any chance of getting the motherboard model number in the description? Pretty please?
blog.ktz.me/asrock-rack-e3c246d4u-the-perfect-media-server-motherboard/
I wrote a blog post about it a while back. Enjoy!
Supermicro h12ssl is another option. There are a couple of variants depending on if you want sata, SAS or nvme.
What is going to handle all of your transcodes?
Might be a fun video.
Testing software only vs quicksync in an iGPU vs quicksync via an arc GPU vs an nvidia GPU.
Id be super interested in it. I have an A750 in my desktop and a RTX 3060 in my server. Id love to swap them if i could. But something tells me i have the best layout, considering CUDA support for things like LLMs.
@@ktzsystems If you can find one for a good price A2000 is an option, but it seems like being able to get them 'cheap' has passed.
@@nadtz I just got an a2000 6gb new at microcenter in the US for 255 dollars USD this week. I was shocked to find it.
@@kevinoneill2170 Can't lie, I'm a little envious. I missed out on getting one when they were selling 'cheap' on ebay sadly. good find!
Business in the front and party in the rear?
Aren’t we all?
one day i'll go there and wave
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roller coaster tycoon eh
Yes indeed! Openrct2 to be specific.
Pretty dark picture
There's no point in using zfs if you don't have ecc memory. Stop building "servers" without ecc memory.
Well there is a point, using platforms that don't support it; but since it's not that hard to have ecc memory - I don't quite understand why one would do it as well
@premium german, agree with second sentence but your first is just wrong. you must be hanging out with those nuts from the the FreeNAS forum.
ZFS doesn't need ECC more than any other filesystem.
@@rencothrawford ZFS doesn't. Data does.
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul So, we agree?