TS-140 for home use/plex?

jubei

jubei

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Hi guys,

I am wanting to buy a server for streaming plex about the house and general file storage. I was pretty set on buying a gen 8 microserver but then noticed this ts-140 with a xeon processor and a small hdd/optical drive and 4gig ram included.

Would this be a better shout than the gen8 for running plex? Reviews say it is quiet, i want this to be a 24/7 server in general so power consumption/noise is a priority.

passmark on the xeon is just under 7000 compared to the 2000 on the gen8. Was going to buy it along with a single 3tb wd red for now?
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Do you really need that kind of power though? Plex runs absolutely fine on the Gen7 N54L server I have, albeit I upgraded the RAM to 8GB
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No possibly not, i chromecast my media so i dont think i need to transcode at all at the moment. But i figure having a server i could start doing more with it and the extra power might be worthwhile.

I may just hold off for now i guess, its more of an impulse 'nice to have' than a need.
 
A friend has just got one as a home server (he too was contemplating a Microserver).

I had a Celeron G550 (which, I think, is more powerful than the AMD CPU in the HP servers?), which I've upgraded to an i5-2500 because once I'd put Plex on there, and started to transcode large MKV files, it was beginning to struggle, and I couldn't guarantee that I'd only be transcoding 1 at a time (which is about all it would cope with) - the i5, however, manages multiple simultaneous transcodes, as well as all the other tasks I throw at it.
 
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