As per the other thread, this was a questionable choice for a media orientated box, you bought something that is old/inefficient/has no media capabilities when your budget could easily have got you something much more modern and capable used or new. Just as the rules on competitor linking were pointed out multiple times and ignored, people tried to point out it wasn’t a good idea to go with a G8, it’s almost as if you didn’t want advice and just wanted people to agree with your questionable choices, which begs the question of why ask for advice in the first place?
Before you ask what would I recommend, the answer would be the same as the countless other threads you chose not to read, a used 8th gen or newer Intel with iGPU as it supports hardware transcoding other than AV1, was the generation where i3’s became 4c and i5’s 6c etc and is still reasonably efficient. OS wise, likely UnRAID if you plan on expanding storage predominantly for media usage/efficiency, TNS if you need IOPS and more resilience and are OK with spinning up a full vdev just to watch a single thing. Case depends on your end goal, a Fractal Designs eg Node 304/804 or the XL towers, a Jonsbro N2-N5 would also work, upto the SC846/7 for upto 24/36 drives if you are serious. LSI 3000 series HBA if you need to break out more SATA or SAS. PSU wise, a Corsair RM series PSU is a favourite for the desktop builds as it’s stupidly efficient at low loads, but scales better than a PICO spinning up a reasonable size vdev. the rest on storage and NVMe cache, make sure it’s TLC and not QLC, especially for TN, I like the Intel 22110 based server NVMe’s as they have capacitor backup, but run hot without a sink/airflow, mechanical wise, 8-12TB HGST/WD helium drives as a rule for me.
You’d have spent roughly 10% of your budget on board/CPU/RAM/cooler, have something reasonably efficient/capable, your choice of case/PSU and the rest for storage. It’s also an easy board/CPU/RAM upgrade path when your needs change.
For reference, I built an 8 drive set-up in an 804 for a friend 11 months ago using the parts mentioned (i5 8400/32GB/RM750 v2 and 8 SATA drives, after I tweaked the c-states, it idled at 40w +/- 2w with fans on low and drives spun down, which is how it will spend most of its life.
I hope you can make what you have fit your stated needs and it works for you, but it’s certainly not an obvious choice.
Before you ask what would I recommend, the answer would be the same as the countless other threads you chose not to read, a used 8th gen or newer Intel with iGPU as it supports hardware transcoding other than AV1, was the generation where i3’s became 4c and i5’s 6c etc and is still reasonably efficient. OS wise, likely UnRAID if you plan on expanding storage predominantly for media usage/efficiency, TNS if you need IOPS and more resilience and are OK with spinning up a full vdev just to watch a single thing. Case depends on your end goal, a Fractal Designs eg Node 304/804 or the XL towers, a Jonsbro N2-N5 would also work, upto the SC846/7 for upto 24/36 drives if you are serious. LSI 3000 series HBA if you need to break out more SATA or SAS. PSU wise, a Corsair RM series PSU is a favourite for the desktop builds as it’s stupidly efficient at low loads, but scales better than a PICO spinning up a reasonable size vdev. the rest on storage and NVMe cache, make sure it’s TLC and not QLC, especially for TN, I like the Intel 22110 based server NVMe’s as they have capacitor backup, but run hot without a sink/airflow, mechanical wise, 8-12TB HGST/WD helium drives as a rule for me.
You’d have spent roughly 10% of your budget on board/CPU/RAM/cooler, have something reasonably efficient/capable, your choice of case/PSU and the rest for storage. It’s also an easy board/CPU/RAM upgrade path when your needs change.
For reference, I built an 8 drive set-up in an 804 for a friend 11 months ago using the parts mentioned (i5 8400/32GB/RM750 v2 and 8 SATA drives, after I tweaked the c-states, it idled at 40w +/- 2w with fans on low and drives spun down, which is how it will spend most of its life.
I hope you can make what you have fit your stated needs and it works for you, but it’s certainly not an obvious choice.
