Unraid - GPU for single stream transcoding / one VM

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Decided to repurpose my Ryzen 2700X into an Unraid system. At the moment I don't have a spare GPU, so am looking for something cheap (but not nasty) that will allow me to do Plex transcoding to one client, or allow me to run it in passthrough to a single virtual machine.

Looking for something power efficient as well, after having a look around seems like the Zotac Gaming GTX1650 OC fits the bill - draws power over the PCI bus and is £150:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £159.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)​
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Is this a wise option or should I be considering something else?

Ta :)
 
krooton said:
Not sure if you even need a graphics card.
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Thanks, but my motherboard won't boot without one and it's just so I can do stuff locally if I want to rather than via the web interface. If my motherboard had some kind of display/HDMI port on it, I'd probably pick up an APU - but the motherboard doesn't have one.

My main concern is that I want enough grunt to be able to handle multiple incoming ONVIF streams, some home NAS usage and streaming 1080p to one or two clients.

On the basis the 2700X is more than enough for my transcoding needs (thanks for the links) - I'll go with whatever GPU seems a good/cheap deal :)
 
whiskycycle said:
Just rebuilt my Unraid box around a Ryzen 5 2600... Threw in a GT710 I got cheap so it'll boot.
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Nice :) What sort of thing are you using it for? My plan is to have Unraid running, with some Samba shares for myself and the wife. Then I plan upon running Plex as a Docker and also storing footage from IP CCTV cameras. I might get them to record straight to the NAS, or I might run a VM to put some CCTV NVR software on there.
 
whiskycycle said:
Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, SabNZBD-PIA, SMB shares, cloud backup each way (server to cloud and back), DuckDNS, OpenVPN-AS back to the house from outside. Chunks of VMs for training/learning.

SpaceInvaderOne's videos are absolutely phenomenal for figuring it all out, and I ended up subbing to his Patreon as a result.

You can run Zoneminder as a Docker container, that seems to be the go-to CCTV application!

I value silence for main rig, so didn't get to the point where I could have the box living under the desk as my main computer, running W10 as a VM with hardware passthrough on video card, keyboard, mouse etc either, hence just whacking in the GT710. Box is far too warm and with a droning noise profile (8x 4TB HGST (2x parity, 6x data).
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I've been watching Space Invader One's videos, definitely helpful. Seems knowledgeable about UnRaid. I did consider FreeNAS as well, but like the ease with which drives can be added in UnRaid.

I was either going to use the Amcrest software for CCTV, BlueIris in a Win 10 VM or Shinobi is another open source CCTV NVR that I mean to give a go sometime.

The GT710 looks like just the job, probably go for a 2GB one online. I was looking at some of the other 7xx series cards, but that fanless-heatsink looks like a good option :)
 
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Monkian said:
You can also run xpenology as a VM in unraid and use that for surveillance station for your CCTV stuff.
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Out of interest, if you do that, what happens in terms of buying licences for additional cameras? Can you buy extra licences or are you stuck with two cameras?

To be honest, more likely to use something like Blue Iris, but curious....
 
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