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PLEX Server - Supermicro 6-bay Opteron 1385 8GB - Is This To Slow??

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PLEX Server - Supermicro 6-bay Opteron 1385 8GB
Is This To Slow, to be a plex server for 4 families?
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Even a KS 1 should be enough for handling 2-3 concurrent streaming...
You need to explain your use case.
What is the maximum quality of the content you are streaming?
What is the maximum number of streams you estimate will be used concurrently?
Will you need to transcode any of the content, or can all content be played natively by the Plex clients?
Depends on the devices you're streaming to and the format of the content. If you're direct streaming, then it's perfectly fine. If you need to do transcoding then you might run into issues streaming even two 1080p streams. As a rule of thumb, you'll need a 2000 passmark score per 1080p stream and 1500 passmark score per 720p (Source). That server has a passmark of ~3500.
Quality of the content, Max 720p
No transcode, No more than 3 streams concurrently,
If you don’t need to transcode, as has been said, you could run the Plex server off a KS-1 with no issue, so that Opteron will be more than up to the task.
Supermicro 6-bay Opteron 1385 8GB 2x2TB Rent Only Special (Bonus 4TB FREE)
yes it's slow, this my last day to make a payment, may be going back to stock..
Opteron 1385 Bench Mark 3,442
I am letting the server go, to slow for friends and family use..
It's really not.
If you're seeing performance problems, you need to investigate further. There's every chance you could get something with a 3xfaster CPU and it make no difference.
'last day to make a payment' i sure hope you cancelled appropriately and aren't just skipping out on the bill and letting it terminate
I just paid the bill, going set it up as a plex server and see how it goes..
that's a lot of storage, really don't need to keep it..
How have you jumped from cancelling to paying the bill in 15 minutes?
why, > @vish said:
you the one that must be bipolar and you went from helpful advice to total a-hole in 9.999999 Star Trek warp speed
I run a Plex server at home on an Orange Pi PC (ARM processor, 1GB RAM, 100BaseT) and can accommodate 3 no-transcode 720p x264 MKV streams. The Opteron is MORE than enough.
Thank you very much for your help and advice at least more than a few people on this forum are not totally a-holes..
I don't understand the question how did I decide to pay my bill in 15 minutes, I was being told by ticket that my server was due for immediate termination,
That's a lot of storage for $25 per month and it's a dedicated server not a goddamn VPS and for only a few bucks more you can go from 10 terabytes to 20 terabytes, so I made a decision..
You're a proper bell mate.
oh you're one of THOSE PEOPLE
I installed plex last night, going to try some test videos..
Was waiting to grab that server if you cancelled it XD
8TB for $25 is a steal.
It was available for quite sometime on Dacentec's website yesterday. Keep looking.
What were you using it for all this time?
i paid the invoice, i am keeping the server..
Using mostly as a failover for my websites, manually using cloudflare,
and some small storage and backups..
'4 families' is probably too much for the server, consider one of you guys will have to transcode the video somehow, sometime. Or you really meant a family of 4.
it will be 3 families, total of 4 users.
link to the offer page? that server is good enough for only 4 users with 1-2 transcode of 720p
It's no longer available. Keep checking
https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart/dedicated-servers/
and it might show up.For any one that is still on the green side of "tech know how"
I found a great Plex Install tutorial that's newbie friendly,
Very few sites say any thing about the SSH Tunnel:
It's literally in their own documentation... https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288586-Installation
It's literally not newbie friendly, a lot a saying to do something without saying how,
You Have a nice day..