Much louder than my Dell servers which are only a little louder than the air conditioner). The guy didn't want it anymore because it was too loud (in fairness, it is obnoxiously loud.
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I picked up an HP Proliant 8th Gen (also with ILO, HP's IDRAC equivalent, unlocked - instead of a physical hardware module like the Dell IDRAC 6, it's a license that goes into non-volatile memory) with RAM and CPUs and 3x 2.5" drives for $120. I have seen older rackmount systems that are pretty well equipped being unloaded there for VERY cheap, some even with working drives. Something I don't see mentioned here, but it might also be worthwhile to check your local Craigslist for cheap older rackmount servers. If you have any linux knowledge whatsoever I highly recommend building your own nas system instead of buying a prebuilt, if on the lower end it may be cheaper to get a prebuilt, but in terms of performance per dollar self built is going to win out pretty much every time, on the medium to high end its going to be a no-brainer as it will be cheaper and faster. My entire system, which comprises of a 10c/20t xeon cpu, supermicro mobo, 128gb DDR4 ram, and case cost about $600 (excluding hard drives), to compare, the qnap 12+4 bay nas was $1250 and was an arm quad core CPU with 4gb of ram.ĭon't get me wrong the QNAP worked great serving up the storage and extremely easy to setup/use, but it was extremely non-performant in comparison to my current system and at a higher price point. You get essentially unlimited hard drive expansion capabilities (limited only by the amount of slots in the case you have which is normally 25-30 HDD at the very most ~ my case build will max out with 20 drives). I'm a bit proponent of unraid for running Plex storage as well as the server itself in a VM/docker container (or freenas). So the biggest question is how comfortable are you building your own computer/nas and maintaining it?Ī prebuilt nas will be substantially easier to use and setup, however you're going to pay about 2x as much in cost and you will get about 1/3 of the capability.
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So my personal path for Plex the past decade or so was dual drive windows software raid 1 -> drobo 5 bay dual disk redundancy -> qnap 1635ax in raid 6 -> antec twelve hundred v3 tower using all 12 bays for hdd enclosures running unraid.
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