Is the Hp z220 Xeon E3-1270 V2 w/ Quadro K2000 a viable plex/nas setup running Unraid on it?
It would be maybe 3-4 clients 1080p.
I’ve been browsing around and haven’t seen any posts about this sort of setup.
My plan was to add a drive cage to the 5.25 bays for 4 HDDs and use the existing cage for an SSDs for the cache for Unraid.
Thanks for any insight!
Probably overkill even without the GPU
haha, alright.
thank you!
Not necessarily a bad thing if you already own it.
3-4 clients is nothing if they are direct playing. This should easily support several transcodes
Is there a 3 - 5.25" to 4 - 3.5" drive bay that you’d recommend?
Of the 10 I’ve looked at, it has been all mixed reviews of drives usually running too hot.
Multi-bay adapters do generally run hot, and are usually pretty expensive for the amount of bays you get.
Have you priced out building a DAS? Usually it only ends up a few dollars more expensive, but has many more bays with proper cooling.
I got a z240, I ended up moving the entire system to a large, tbf larger than I expected, fractal design box. I paid $300~ for the z240 so the chassis increased the cost a lot but I intend to run 10-12 drives in it so that will eclipse the cost anyway.
All in all it’s a quite powerful machine, I haven’t tried much transcoding with GPU acceleration but I think I could generate about 4-6 1080p streams at reasonable settings simultaneously. This is on a E3-1230 v5 tho.