depasseg I see your point. Built a box with all the storage needs and all the services I need with FreeNas. Then built a machine with Plex with the fast hardware to build and scale bigger if needed in the future...But I really want to built one, so I don't have to worry about 2 machine being up at one time. My current machine is not 100% reliable due to other things I do that sometimes freezes my machine.
So I looked at the cpu link, I need a CPU with at 13,000 passmark. I believe I will have no more than 6-720p streams (9,000), 2-1080p (4,000) external streams at a given time. My local connections with be direct, so need to transcode. So if the maximum amount of users all connect at one time, which I 99.8% doubt, then the most I can see this machine stress is up to 13,000 passmark. I think I will never see this but want a processor up to the task if needed those uncertain .02%.
So if i built just the ONE server, then this gives the server enough power to run more things at one time. I realistically foresee just 3-4 external connections on a sat night, with 1 local at a given time mostly streaming 720p content, as 90% of my media is 720p. So given that 4-720p * (1,500) = 6,000. Lets add another 1080p (2,000) to the mix, I then see the passmark at 8,000 at peak 99.8% of the time when serving media through Plex.
The E5-2630 v3 I mentioned above measures at 13,253 which gives me plenty of more head room for other things. Not to mention its' above the 13k mark as well, which will serve all users 100% of the time if it ever gets to it. Now this brings up another question then, Is there a passmark number range for other jails in FreeNas? Plex kind of gave a range with 720p & 1080p(1,500 & 2,000), has anyone measured there Jails or services to calculate the processor power needed to run them?
SweetandLow, I can't break down your data to make sense to me.
mjws00, Depasseg built has a E5-2637 v3 processor and I'm looking into the E5-2630 v3 processor. The E5-2637 v3 has a passmark of 10,519 and the E5-2630 v3 has a passmark of 13,253. This gives the E5-2630 v3 an advantage of 2,734 which is equivalent to serve another 2 720p transcode connections.
The only thing I see is that the E5-2637 v3 runs at 3.5Ghz with 4 cores(8-threads) and the E5-2630 v3 runs at 2.4Ghz with 8 cores(16-threads).
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X10DRi-T doesn't mention anything about 10GB ports. says it has 3 10/100/1000Mbps ports.
Based on what you said, I think I won't be going ESXI then. It will be my first time doing it, and I currently have over 30TB of data I don't want to lose.
I also notice the TDP on the E5-2637 v3 is 135W and the E5-2630 v3 is 85W if that makes a big difference?
And if I go with a dual cpu MB, I can go with 2 E5-2630 v3 which will cost me $1,300 and yield me 26,506 passmark. Thats 16 cores(32-threads).
{This comes out to 18 streams transcoding 720p contents at one time}
The E5-2637 v3 will cost me $2,000 and only yield me 21,038 passmark. Thats 8 cores(16-threads).
{This comes out to 14 streams transcoding 720p contents at one time}
Either one will serve me just fine if I go with dual cpu but the E5-2637 will cost me $700 more. At to be frank, I think they both will be a overkill for what I'm foreseeing in my near future. But I like the idea of knowing that I can add another processor down the road to scale higher if needed.
So my question: Is the higher clock Ghz(3.5Ghz vs 2.4Ghz) with the less cores & threads worth it for my setup, Or the more cores(8 vs 4) & threads better suited for my setup?
They are both new processors for Q3 of 2014
E5-2637 v3
3.5 Ghz
4 cores (8-threads)
15Mb cache
TDP - 135W
$1,000
E5-2630 v3
2.4 Ghz
8 cores (16-threads)
20MB cache
TDP - 85W
$650
