expiredShabbyOWEN posted Apr 04, 2021 07:55 PM
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expiredShabbyOWEN posted Apr 04, 2021 07:55 PM
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus E-2224 S100i 4LFF-NHP 180W External PS Server $549.99
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Used to love Microservers, but hard to see the benefit compared to cheaper, low-end tower servers for most applications unless you REALLY need the small formfactor (or the ILO).
I actually built my xpenology server last week out of an old i5 pc I had. It works great but my power draw is at 70 watts with 3 drives in it.
Now the reason I think buying a real synology might be better is Im not really too sure on the future of xpenology. We havnt been able to update to 6.2.4 and 7.0 should be out soon.
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Because of iLO (remote management), this server does not support hardware transcoding via Quicksync (even if you use a CPU that does supports quicksync).
Also no internal NVMe slot (for Unraid cache drive).
One PCIe slot, so your options are (pick one) - GPU for Plex HW transcoding, NVMe SSD, or 10Gps NIC.
I really wanted to like this server. Awesome form factor. If it had any one of the 3 missing features - plex hw transcoding, 10Gbs NIC or NVMe - I would have bought this.
I actually built my xpenology server last week out of an old i5 pc I had. It works great but my power draw is at 70 watts with 3 drives in it.
Now the reason I think buying a real synology might be better is Im not really too sure on the future of xpenology. We havnt been able to update to 6.2.4 and 7.0 should be out soon.
I would/did lean more towards the HP t740
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and throw in an intel i350/4 port gigabit nic on the x16 port
Because of iLO (remote management), this server does not support hardware transcoding via Quicksync (even if you use a CPU that does supports quicksync).
Also no internal NVMe slot (for Unraid cache drive).
One PCIe slot, so your options are (pick one) - GPU for Plex HW transcoding, NVMe SSD, or 10Gps NIC.
I really wanted to like this server. Awesome form factor. If it had any one of the 3 missing features - plex hw transcoding, 10Gbs NIC or NVMe - I would have bought this.
Any source you can share on that?
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Any source you can share on that?
"Intel Quick Sync is not supported. Intel's SPS firmware doesn't allow it, and SPS is required for the server-y features of the microserver Gen10 Plus. This is used instead of the Intel ME firmware that you may be more familar with, which does support Quick Sync, but doesn't support server features.
Source: I'm the DL380 Product Manager and asked the Microserver Product Manager"
Edit - My current favorite Plex/HomeLab server hardware is a slightly used HP ProDesk 600 G4 mini with an i5-8500T (6 cores, 8th gen intel), 32GB RAM, 2 internal NVMe slot and one SATA 2.5", running Unraid. NAS/Storage functionality is handled separately.
Do they do a lot of big OS "main version" updates? I guess not, but part of the reason is the platform is already solid and feature-rich. V7 of their OS is in beta now, but I'll let others be the first to try that.
"Intel Quick Sync is not supported. Intel's SPS firmware doesn't allow it, and SPS is required for the server-y features of the microserver Gen10 Plus. This is used instead of the Intel ME firmware that you may be more familar with, which does support Quick Sync, but doesn't support server features.
Source: I'm the DL380 Product Manager and asked the Microserver Product Manager"
Edit - My current favorite Plex/HomeLab server hardware is a slightly used HP ProDesk 600 G4 mini with an i5-8500T (6 cores, 8th gen intel), 32GB RAM, 2 internal NVMe slot and one SATA 2.5", running Unraid. NAS/Storage functionality is handled separately.
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Any source you can share on that?
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