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Zitat von Adoby

It seems that you have pre-determined that you will only have one pretty powerful NAS. Why is that? Why not more than one, and smaller? Perhaps even many more?

Also you say nothing about the backup method you intend to use, but quite a lot about RAID. I would argue that the backup system should take priority over what, if any, RAID you intend to use. A good backup system, with extremely high combined bandwidth, can be built using more than one separate NAS. And if RAID is used (as I suspect it often is) instead of a good backup system, rethinking this might make RAID unnecessary and could even improve the final system. Cost, performance, stability, data integrity and redundancy.

Using separate units you can have some that are specially designed for data storage and some that are specially designed for processing and/or streaming. And even some that are specially designed for backup data storage. And you could even run distributed workloads, other than backups.

Using several smaller units it is easy to expand. You simply add more units as needed. If you have several identical units you can also get nice hardware redundancy. I use Odroid HC2s with 12 TB Ironwolf HDDs.

Also transcoding on-the-fly may be nice, but is really only needed for live content. You could easily share more than one version of the video, in different formats/bandwidths. And re-encode it in advance with much higher quality and compression than on-the-fly transcoding is capable of. You might even run several instances of plex/emby for different versions of the media for clients with different bandwidth capabilities.

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thanks for the tips....
I had not thought about the possibility of creating more small systems and I will certainly study the possibility.
surely at the moment I have two problems in mind this this option
first, the cost is certainly greater, second, my space available is not very much, indicatively 60x60x60cm.

Zitat von davidh2k

I'd rather suggest to save money and go with a Ryzen 5 2600 instead, that alone should save you 100 bucks. Also 16GB RAM should be plenty, if you don't plan using on ZFS...

The 16Gb of ram are for the 2 (for now) VMs . However the hardware is not yet in the decision phase. In fact i'm still looking for advices

Zitat von davidh2k

Some boards have plenty of SATA Connectors (8+, some even 10): geizhals.de/?cat=mbam4&xf=2962_8

Thanks for the suggestion, but the AMD CPU does not have the Quick Sync technology and can't use the Plex Hardware Transcoding, as far as i know.

Zitat von davidh2k

From those listed above, only one has 5Gbe and another has 10Gbe. The first one around 180 €, the other at 250 €.

I will go with this: https://www.asus.com/it/Networking/XG-C100C/ . More or less 90€

Zitat von davidh2k

Whats the reason behind the P2000? Seems like overkill to add a dedicated GPU into the NAS.

Because i will have it for free and because its very powerful for Plex transcoding.

Zitat von davidh2k

You mean for transcoding? Even the CPU should do just fine there: anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-s…700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600/12

unfortunately I don't think it has the power to do multiple transcodings at the same time.
I have several films and TV series on plex, and other than this I also use plex to share videos, made by me, with friends and colleagues.
Since the videos that I create are very often are in 4k, transcoding is necessary.
unfortunately I don't have the possibility to understand if an AMD processor can do for me.

Zitat von davidh2k

You got two PCI-E x16 Slots on most boards.

This is true with the AMD motherboards. The Intel motherboards with z390/z370 chip have very limited pci lines.
In all honesty I prefer to use AMD CPU but the transcoding capability is very limited.

Zitat von davidh2k

A. Don't install OMV on a USB Stick, only if you really have to, but then use the fs2ram Plugin to lessen the writes to the USB Stick... B. You can only do RAID on the OS Disk if you install Debian first and install OMV afterwards to it.

A: Thanks for the answer, i completely forgot that plugin
B: thank you, I was completely unaware of this

Zitat von davidh2k

You mean installing it in a VM? Then yes, you could expose the Files to a Windows VM (over the network). Installing it as Dualboot? No, not possible as Windows will be unable to access the Linux Raid Array.

Yeah in a VM

Zitat von MK0201

That GPU is WAY overkill or a NAS (which are typically headless)... What are you planning on doing?

Yeah it's overkill for a NAS but i want use it for transcoding capability with Plex, and only with Plex.

My intent is to create a small server that can handle different flows with Plex, manage 2 virtual machines (3 or 4 in the future), manage a VPN and work on some files directly on the NAS.

Hello to all, i'm new but are months that i read the forum.

I need some advices for my next NAS.
Now i have a Synology DS918 but start to be small for my needs. Now I have 4x12Tb (Raid 5) Hdd almost full with 2 VM, a VPN and a server plex.

My plans are to use this HW for the new NAS:

i5 8600
Asrock Z370
16/32Gb ram
2 x Sata Pci expasion (4xSata per PCI Card)
10Gbe Lan
Nvidia P2000
Case - Node 840

The P2000 will be added in the near future. For now it is inside the PC of my brother.

I have choose the i5 8600 for its 6 cores and for its integrated video card (hd630) that will be used until i will can change it with the p2000 (3 to 6 months)

With my new nas i will change my Raid 5 to a Raid 6. The problem is that windows does not support Raid 6, for this i want use OMV. A hardware raid solution its not possible due to the few PCI slots.

Now my questions...

It's possible to use the potential of the video card with OMV or i need Windows for this (With Plex)?

If i use the docker for install Plex there is a solution for the GPU card?

If i need Windows (for Plex transcoding via P2000) what can i do? I need install Windows inside a VM and then make the PCI passthrough?

Stupid question ... I can install OMV on two USB sticks (in Raid 1) create RAID 6 with my HDDs, transfer all the files and then install Windows and Plex on an SSD and make Plex take the data from the Raid6 ? If its possible, i tink its a waste of resource, right?

for now its all... I think

Thanks you very much for your patience and sorry for my bad english.