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Hi All, I’m looking to replace my ageing setup, I plan on using Sagittarius 8 bay chassis, looking for recommendations on hardware please.

Replacing the following devices. Ideally I need a low power solution but with ability to transcode UHD content. I’m based in UK and budget is flexible ideally around £1000 excluding case.

Synology DS1019+ 5 x 6TB WD Red, NVME Cache

  • Plex
  • Docker

HP Elitebook 800 G3 Mini

  • Proxmox - Running Homeassistant, AdGaurd (LXC Container)

Hardware Goals

  • Low power
  • Hardware Transcoding
  • Dual 2.5GB / 10GB NIC
  • Support for 8 Drives - HBA Card or onboard
  • MATX MB Due to case size

So far I’ve been looking at the following

ASRock X570D4U-2L2T Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor
Corsair Vengeance LPX 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Corsair RM650 (2023) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

All suggestions and recommendations welcome :slight_smile:

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For better transcoding, look into Intel rather than AMD.

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You don’t want to run ECC RAM?

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Definately this

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Yea, I overlooked this…

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Thanks for Intel suggestions, I’m struggling to find an Intel MATX Board with same feature set as AMD but I’ll keep searching, any suggestions welcome.

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Suggestion:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/x11sdv-4c-tp8f
This is an all-in-one board with 12SATA, 410G Ethernet, Hardware Remote Management etc. CPU is soldered on board, you only need to add RAM.
Purposely built for servers.

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No iGPU for transcoding, and idles at 60 W…

What about an AsRockRack E3C246D2U-2T? (If the UHD630 from Cascade Lake CPUs support the 4K transcoding you want.)

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That’s cheap!

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Wow, decent board for the money. Once I’m home I’ll look for CPU/RAM that supports. iGPU, ECC & isn’t to power hungry :joy:

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Matching CPU (with DDR4 ECC UDIMM): Core i3-8100/9100 (64 GB RAM, no -F for iGPU), Xeon E-2100G/2200G (128 GB RAM, and more than 4 cores)

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Thanks, Found the below. Looking i3 as I believe this will be sufficient for my needs and if I need to I can always upgrade to Xeon.

MB: Asrock E3C246D4U2-2T - £150
CPU: Intel i3-9100 - £30-£50
RAM: SK hynix 32GB DDR4-2400MT ECC - £50 each

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Right think I’m spec’d

Case: Sagittarius 8-bay NAS
MB: Asrock E3C246D4U2-2T - £150
CPU: Intel i3-9100 - £30-£50
RAM: SK hynix 32GB DDR4-2400MT ECC - £50 each
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i (Low Profile to fit case)
PSU: CORSAIR RM Series RM650 Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold ATX
HBA: LSI 9300-8i with 2 X SSF-8643 to 4 x SATA
OS Drive: WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD

Haven’t decided on drives yet, probably looking at 4 x 12 or 16TB SATA leaving 4 bays remaining for expansion.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I’ll update with how I get on once parts are ordered.

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The board has 8 SATA ports. Why a HBA?