Yesterday Evening I replaced my HP z240 that was sitting on a shelf with a Rosewill 2U 15" chassis (center image)

TheRosewill machine is an AMD 4, Ryzen 5 5600X @3.7Ghz with 6-core/12-threads. 32 GB (4x 8GB) of DDR4 DIMMS. A B550M AORUS ELITE microATX board. With a 1TB NVMe SSD, NVIDIA Quadro P1000 for PLEX transcoding and lastly a SFP+ 10gig network card. I also replaced the stock MOLEX fans with Noctua redux PWM fans.

The upgrade was primarily to satisfy my OCD and get the “PC on a shelf” replaced with an actual rack mounted computer. The AMD cpu is a bit more powerful than the previous intel i7-7700 and can run the minecraft hosted worlds a bit smoother, and doesn’t interfere with PLEX serving or transcoding at all.

Both the PLEX server and synology data storage server are linked with 10 gig through the 10gig Unifi X16 switch.

The entire setup is inside of a 18U wall mounted and enclosed rack mount with four 120mm fans for ventilation on the top and bottom.

Rack explained top to bottom: U1 - Unifi-8p-60W switch for PoE to my two Unifi-IW-AC units.

U2 - Keystone Patch Panel for inter-rack connections and connections throughout house.

U3 - Unifi-X16-10G switch (12 SFP+ ports and 4 8P8C ports, all with 10Gig speeds)

U4 - vented blanking panel with 4x 80mm USB fans for added cooling

U5 - Unifi Dream Machine Pro with 4TB internal HDD for recording

U6-8 - Shelf holding my Modem and MoCA adaptor and assorted power bricks

U9 - Blank panel

U10-11 - new Rosewill 2U chassis

U12 - vented blanking panel

U13-14 - Synology RS1221+

U15 - blank panel

U16-17 - Cyberpower UPS

U18 - PDU

  • FediFuckerFantastico@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is so cool, I’m so uninformed about Plex. I just heard about it on r/Piracy days before the Reddit shutdown. I’m getting ready to sit down and learn how to do all that, the hardware will baffle me I’m sure.

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        1 year ago

        I recommend Jellyfin as well. Open source, local accounts, and no features locked behind a pass. The Jellyfin TV clients are a little more bare bones but the server software itself is pretty much equal nowadays. I have the lifetime Plex Pass but I have moved away from Plex completely now after the direction they’ve been heading in the last couple of years.

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          1 year ago

          Same, I migrated from Plex to Jellyfin about a year ago. It’s just as solid without any of the bloat, local authentication just in case the internet goes down, and transcoding isn’t locked behind a membership.

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            8 months ago

            Is there a master guide for Jellyfin setup from hardware to software? I am having trouble finding something as a server novice who wants to set it all up for my home.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t need insane hardware to get started with Plex, but you’ll soon realize why some go a little nuts with it.

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      1 year ago

      To just get started I’d take a trip to your local thrift store. Some decent old PC tower and a large harddrive is more than enough to get started, play around and get it working. Opt for an intel CPU with “quicksync” if you can as it will do hardware trans coding without a dedicated GPU (like I have).