Time to replace my hp n54l

[waspsoton]

So as the title says I am looking to replace my server. Can spend around £800 maybe more. Looking for 6+ sata and must be powerful enough to cope with 4-6 streams at once.

[bglf83]

So as the title says I am looking to replace my server. Can spend around £800 maybe more. Looking for 6+ sata and must be powerful enough to cope with 4-6 streams at once.

Pre-built or you build with parts?

 

Check eBay to see if the guy from Japan is still selling engineering samples of Xeon V3 processors. I bought a 2630LV3 about 4 months back for $199 US from this person. They are legit.

 

seller:icomputer_parts_international

 

I use that with a SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRI-F. Works good, 10 Sata ports all Intel.

 

Note: Xpenology can only use 8 cores. So on the 2630Lv3 I have hypertheading disabled so I only use the 8 real cores. My setup is baremetal, plex is really the only thing that takes processor power on my setup.

[brantje]

My system (see sig), is powerfull enough to handle 4 streams at the same time.

@bglg, why is the CPU limit 8 cores? Is this a hardware limit?

 

 

Posted via MyXpenology

[bglf83]

The core limit has been discussed some. It's some kind of limit,but software based.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... 5XHXqratXg

[waspsoton]

I am think of using a dual cpu board so do u think this board would work

supermicro X10DAL-i

 

 

 

So as the title says I am looking to replace my server. Can spend around £800 maybe more. Looking for 6+ sata and must be powerful enough to cope with 4-6 streams at once.

Pre-built or you build with parts?

 

Check eBay to see if the guy from Japan is still selling engineering samples of Xeon V3 processors. I bought a 2630LV3 about 4 months back for $199 US from this person. They are legit.

 

seller:icomputer_parts_international

 

I use that with a SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRI-F. Works good, 10 Sata ports all Intel.

 

Note: Xpenology can only use 8 cores. So on the 2630Lv3 I have hypertheading disabled so I only use the 8 real cores. My setup is baremetal, plex is really the only thing that takes processor power on my setup.

[bglf83]

I can look more later today to help, but if it's on this list it should be OK.

 

viewtopic.php?t=10973

-> HARDWARE SUPPORTED LIST <-

[bglf83]

SATA will be fine, the board i have with 10 SATA ports uses the same chipset.

 

If the network card does not work (not on supported list), you can buy an add in card to fix the issue.

[bglf83]

I would consider looking at a board with ipmi it's extremely useful.

 

If you do baremetal, you would likely end up with more cores than Xpenology can handle. That why I have to turn off hypertheading on the single 2630LV3.

[waspsoton]

Found this HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with x2 Xeon x5670 and 16gb ram

but i noticed the raid card 410i doesn't work with xpenology

[fonix232]

If you buy a powerhouse, I'd recommend not directly installing Synology - rather use a hypervisor and emulate XPEnology, alongside with other OS's. That way you can have access to raw power of the machine, while keeping your Synology up and running

[waspsoton]

If you buy a powerhouse, I'd recommend not directly installing Synology - rather use a hypervisor and emulate XPEnology, alongside with other OS's. That way you can have access to raw power of the machine, while keeping your Synology up and running

 

Ok sorry for the stupid question but what do u mean hypervisor??

[CtrlAltDel]

Hypervisor is a machine virtualization like esxi etc. It allows you to use your hardware to function as multiple machines concurrently. You can have virtual machines running different operating system. The suggestion is that you create a virtual environment to run Xpenology instance - which is relatively light on resource demands (depending on your use case) leaving slack on your hardware that could be used to run alternative virtual machines. For example you could have a virtual machine running xbmc which could access media on your Xpenology. It's a little more fiddly than running a bare metal install but on a powerful machine it's worth the hassle. There are some differences when virtualizing Xpenology so you would need to research any issues that may affect you and your use case. There's lots of information here on the forum discussing esxi etc. and there are guides etc. on YTube.

[waspsoton]

Cheers for the info. Given me lots to think about. I am also doing this discussion on the plex forum and they seem to think the cpu X5670 is to old to be any good. Is that correct??

[bglf83]

It's all in the passmark score for plex, 2000 per each 1080p transcode.

 

8181 passmark will do about 4 transcode streams at once.

[waspsoton]

what do we think of this.

2x Intel Xeon E3-1240L

Gigabyte MD30-RS0

2x 8GB Crucial DDR4

[martva]

So power comsumption is no problem I rekcon. Looking at your config I would think it will use around 70W in full load (without HDDs).

 

Is the netwerk chipset Intel i210 support in Xpenology (if you are going for barebone)?

[bglf83]

1240LV3 does not support dual CPU configuration.

[fonix232]

If you use any hypervisor, you can emulate any network adapter you want - basically making sure that your Synology is completely supporting everything, without needing to match the hardware or compile drivers.

 

I'm moving soon to a better flat, and am planning on grabbing a small powerhouse for myself - one part will run XPEnology to host my stuff, one part will run Kodi connected to my TV, for media access. I'm also grabbing a 4K TV, and before you say anything, yes, I know many TVs come with smart software, but none get even close to the multimedia functions of Kodi.

[waspsoton]

1240LV3 does not support dual CPU configuration.

 

Thanks for the info. I have changed the cpu two Xeon e7 4830. I have also got a price for the add on sas card from gigabyte which is £82 so I think the board is a go.