Part 2! Super cheap 47 TB Unraid storage server with Plex HW video encoding.. $1236.00 (Inc. Disks)
This is how I got my self a super cheap Unraid server with GPU encoding and 47 TB of usable space for $1236.00 INCLUDING DISKS!
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• Part 1! Super cheap 47 TB Unraid stor...
PART 2
Final configuration, performance testing, and determining if using used hard drives was a good idea!
00:18 - Introduction
00:53 - Installing LSI SAS controller (PERC H200A)
03:40 - Dell Perc H200I raid bios
04:19 - Tragedy! Issues with used hard drives v1
06:24 - Configuration walk through
07:00 - nVidia driver for Unraid OS
07:24 - Configuring plex docker to use nvidia card and ram (/tmp) for transcode
08:40 - Testing gpu transcoding
09:40 - Transcode test starts
11:40 - Fast forward 4 days! Data migration complete.
12:35 - Used hard drives are NOT a good idea (who knew?)
14:12 - Terrible write performance with SAS drives, how I fixed it
14:34 - Enable write cache on SAS disks for better unraid write performance
14:58 - You can't spin down SAS disks with unraid! (Sad face)
16:35 - Maintaining
17:00 - Grafana monitoring for unraid
Resources:
Plex setup with GPU Encoding
• How to enable HW Decoding (NVDEC) in ...
Grafana Monitoring Setup
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboard...
SAS Drive Write Cache
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/72862...
Hardware List (UPDATED):
Lenovo RD240 2U Server - $200
nVidia Quadro M2000 PCI-E GPU - $100
8x HGST 8TB SAS Hard Drives - $840
PCI-E 8x to 16x expansion port (ribbon) - $26
2x Samsung 250 GB SSD - $70
LSI SAS Controller flashed to IT Mode - $40
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