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PiKe · 2 Feb 2017 at 20:11

Is the Gen8 capable of transcoding Plex streams at all?

HEADRAT · 2 Feb 2017 at 20:49

Not with the stock CPU but put a INTEL XEON E3-1230V2 then it's a breeze, one on eBay now for £130

Trig · 2 Feb 2017 at 21:00

Depends on quality and how many streams..

squarepusher · 2 Feb 2017 at 23:21

Can anyone recommend a way of backup with WS2012? I have 2x 4TB which I want one as a backup (its full pretty much now) and I have setup a scheduled in WS but it has let me down, not following scheduled and wont do a one off, comes up with an error.

Don't like sitting on all this data with no back up with a other empty 4tb!

nutcase · 3 Feb 2017 at 08:01

Veeam endpoint?

maj · 3 Feb 2017 at 08:31

HEADRAT said:
Not with the stock CPU but put a INTEL XEON E3-1230V2 then it's a breeze, one on eBay now for £130

I bought a E3-1220L for £99 not so long ago. Maybe should have hang on unless I get the 1230 and try and sell the 1220 on.

peter212693 · 5 Feb 2017 at 09:28

With the E3-1230 in the Gen8 and transcoding in plex, what temps does it hit? Reading online and that CPU is 69W, quite a jump from the originals. Anyone done with with 4 x WD Red drives in too? It not close to the PSU limit?

Tempted to upgrade to a Gen8 with one of these from my Gen7.

MagicBoy · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:46

Unless the PSU is well under 120W then no!

decto · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:24

PiKe said:
Is the Gen8 capable of transcoding Plex streams at all?

If you are transcoding on demand, unlikely to max the CPU continuously

GDL · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:30

peter212693 said:
With the E3-1230 in the Gen8 and transcoding in plex, what temps does it hit? Reading online and that CPU is 69W, quite a jump from the originals. Anyone done with with 4 x WD Red drives in too? It not close to the PSU limit?

Tempted to upgrade to a Gen8 with one of these from my Gen7.

Mine got warm but nothing that hit alert threshold in the Ilo.

The only way it came close was working the CPU @ 100% with HT enabled for about an hour.

I had 4x3TB reds in as well as a HP P212 with 2xSSD's in the top.

Normal usage will be fine.

peter212693 · 5 Feb 2017 at 14:04

Might look into this then as an upgrade to the gen7. Probably max of 2 trancodes at a time mainly 1. Not sure if it will still be the case but one transcode maxes the gen7 cpu for a good while.

Trig · 5 Feb 2017 at 19:11

It'll do one, depending on what quality you have Plex setup on at the other end might do 2, I've got 2 friends that I setup base Gen8's for both running 6Gb RAM on the G1610T running Plex out to different devices and streaming to internet devices on one of them...

bulletv1 · 6 Feb 2017 at 10:34

My Gen8 is stock and occasionally the cpu maxes out when streaming SD content to my tv.

HEADRAT · 6 Feb 2017 at 10:36

What TV so you have?

Why does it need to be trans coded to play on your TV?

decto · 6 Feb 2017 at 12:56

When I ran Plex on the N40L I encoded all my films as 'high' then recoded these as a low/mid. Plex automatically selected the one to stream based on the device. Avoided transcoding on the fly for a little extra data. Storage is cheap.

Furton · 6 Feb 2017 at 14:02

PiKe said:
Is the Gen8 capable of transcoding Plex streams at all?

Yes, I have no issue Transcoding from my stock Gen8 to Plex.

HEADRAT · 6 Feb 2017 at 14:16

Is it actually transcoding or just direct streaming?

bulletv1 · 6 Feb 2017 at 14:53

HEADRAT said:
Is it actually transcoding or just direct streaming?

I've got a BRAVIA KDL42W805 and either use the app on the tv or a ps3 to play it. Don't think they support MKV so there would be some transcoding.

HEADRAT · 6 Feb 2017 at 15:24

What does the PLEX server status show, MKV is just a container.

PiKe · 8 Feb 2017 at 19:42

Anyone know what type of RAM the N36L needs? I've tried 2x1gb Kingston parity/registered memory but it won't boot. The memory that it came with is just ECC, is that different to parity?