Advice on server change

[siri_uk]

Hi guys

I'm currently running xpenology with arpl loader, the pc I'm using has: - 

 

Intel i5 7400

16gb DDR4 ram

MSI gaming m7 motherboard

 

I can't help feeling its a bit too much for my server, I was thinking of replacing it with an hp gen 8 microserver with xeon 1265l and 16gb of ram. I run plex on the server and 8 docker containers, mainly holds movies, music and TV series, I'd welcome any thoughts on this.

 

TIA

[WiteWulf]

+1 for the Gen 8, but you will be limited in your choice of Synology hardware to emulate by the CPU, as it's quite an old architecture now.

 

As per https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/61634-dsm-7x-loaders-and-platforms/, you're best going with DS3622xs+

 

I used to run Plex on the same hardware and it was good transcoding up to 1080p content, but couldn't manage 4k. As per standard Plex guidance, though, you really shouldn't be transcoding 4k material anyway.