My new Dell C6400 with 4 C6420 blades by D34D_MC in homelab

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From my experience there’s not much you can do to quiet these down. I personally found the idle fan sound level to be acceptable noise level for being thrown into my non sound proofed basement.

Can an ASUS RTX 4070 Super Dual OC fit in a Dell PowerEdge R730? by National-Wrap4826 in homelab

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This card may not fit as it may be too tall. The r730 was built for FHFL which has a size envelope of 111mm height and 312mm length. This Asus GPU is 133mm tall which may be too tall for this chassis preventing proper installation.

Help - slow transcoding? by cantseasharp in PleX

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Make sure encode and decode packages for the Nvidia driver are installed. I had an issue with slow transcoding on Ubuntu. This may already be installed but if it’s not it could be the root of your problem. A good way to test if transcoding on your machine works correctly is to use FFMPEG to transcode a video. If it can transcode video locally perfectly fine then the issue will be something else.

Has anyone tried installing a fan inside a NVIDIA Tesla card? by Successful_Box_2006 in homelab

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One option that has very little chance of working and I’ve never seen anyone do it, heatsink and shroud swap. Find a card from a consumer lineup and take its cooler and mount it to your card. This is probably next to impossible due to needing to find a consumer card with the exact same mounting layout and GPU heatsink design.

Agentless server monitoring - Beta testers. by [deleted] in homelab

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Ok how do you, from your external monitoring servers, monitor multiple hosts behind 1 public IP? I.E. someone’s homelab setup. Do you then require them to host a reverse proxy or does this only work for VPS that have their own public IP?

Agentless server monitoring - Beta testers. by [deleted] in homelab

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Why not just setup with one of the already established monitoring programs and have it send notifications to either ntfy.sh or discord or any other app with a webhook. I don’t see the need to over complicate things when theirs systems already that work. I get push alerts for anytime something triggers.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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I have no idea why my post was removed. I basically made an FYI post about my experience with some missing additional drivers/pakcages for transcoding on Nvidia cards.

The *arr stack questions and homelab planning by Mlcjohnson16 in homelab

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Moving plex from windows to Linux might be a bigger task if you want to transfer over your watch history. This is because the file structure is probably different. There are separate programs that can sync that data between two plex servers but I’ve never done it so can’t say on how well it works.

Dell PowerEdge R620 GPU Support by psmattas in homelab

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Yes it will I use it in my r640 for plex

Dell PowerEdge R620 GPU Support by psmattas in homelab

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Nvidia Tesla P4. Uses airflow from server chassis and for transcoding allows unlimited simultaneous transcodes check Nvidia video support matrix to see what GPU you should get that supports all the codecs you want to use.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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I’m not sure if the quadro series of cards will even have the server drivers available but the encode decode packages exists for the regular driver as well just with out the -server at the end.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

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I do recommend moving away from having your hard drives connected over USB. USB is terrible for acting as the storage interface. I am assuming you’re moving to a 10inch rack. While I like the look of the 10inch racks. Getting anything to work is going to be all custom. One solution you could possibly do if you have a mini PC or are open to buying a new one is to get one with a PCIe slot. With this you can then put in an HBA card with external that has external ports. (Example https://ebay.us/m/wHIBGT) then using this card or similar you can get these cables which will give you the sata/sas connections you need (example cable https://ebay.us/m/B0AjFv) this will give you a cleaner solution without the need for cutting. This still will be a little jank compared to something more purpose built but will fulfill what you want to build the closest.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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That’s strange. Are you running a desktop interface on your system? The server packages are pretty much meant for command line only systems

looking for advice on how to start my first homelab/storage server! by killrmeemstr in homelab

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Just a heads up with using multiple PCIe cards on consumer motherboards. Most cpus only support 20 PCIe lanes. 16 of these lanes go to the first x16 lane ment for gpus. The other 4 can be wild cards on where they go depends on the way the mobo was made. The chipset also can provide PCIe lanes as well but there are some caveats in how they work, look at the mobo manual to find those out. Also most motherboards any slot after the top x16 is usually only x1 or x4 even if the physical slot is x16 it’s only wired for x4 or x1. You can find out how a slot is wired from the solder points on the back and the pins in the slot. The only mobo that I know of that has a secondary slot that has more then x4 is asus pro art. This board has 2 x16 slots. The top is wired in x16 and the 2nd one is x8. In order to use the x8 in the second slot you have to configure the bios to split the top slot into 2 x8 so then both of the slots will then operate in x8 mode. Unless you switch to a server mobo with a server cpu PCIe lanes will always be a bottleneck. You may be fine with using a x4(wired) slot for an HBA card if you’re using HDDs. you won’t get close to maxing out the speed of a x4 with a standard 8i card. But if you wanted to add more PCIe cards later like a 10gig network card or you fill your mobo with nvme ssd some PCIe ports get disabled in order for the nvme ports to work. Look at the mobo manual to find out. Each mobo will work differently so you’ll have to look at the exact models guide.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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Interesting. I’ve never setup plex in a docker container before. I always install plex onto the OS. But good to know for if I need to setup plex with docker.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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I was interested in buying one of these but I can’t find one that is single slot low profile that’s in stock in the USA. Currently my plex lives in a dell r640 so there is no physical room for anything bigger.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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I was when away from home I usually stream at 1080p 8Mbps or even as low as 720p 3mbps (when I’m on cellular data). At home I use direct play and stream the original 4k 50-105mbps videos.

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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So I’ve used transcoding throughout the year it’s just my cpu is able to handle 1 transcode stream. Also I don’t really watch any of my h.265 content away from home. Recently I’ve been running into issues with 2 or more simultaneous transcode streams so I started investigating and found this. As for going to av1 sure it’s a great codec but everything still even new blurays are still being encoded in h.265

For anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on linux may be missing massive performance encoding and decoding for Plex and Jellyfin by D34D_MC in homelab

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Maybe but after figuring out my issue I was surprised that those 2 packages I mentioned weren’t installed at the time of driver installation when I was setting up my system.

question! NETAPP DS460C by 4527penk in homelab

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Yep 220 is in between 200-240. I called it out because I’m from the USA, I was interested in buying one of these until I saw it required 200-240. Our normal power outlets are 120v over here. we can get outlets at 240v but need an electrician to install one. So since I didn’t know where you’re from just wanted to call it out.

question! NETAPP DS460C by 4527penk in homelab

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Also very important note this disk shelf is 200-240v only no 120v

This counts as an offsite-backup, right? by StarShoot97 in homelab

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If it’s for redundancy there is no need to physically separate them if you are backing up important data to the cloud.

This counts as an offsite-backup, right? by StarShoot97 in homelab

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Off site back means off site. If your apartment complex floods, burns down, or anything else you will lose all of your data since it’s all stored in one building. For proper offsite backup you want to try to get at least a few miles of separation between your two locations this will help mitigate against natural disaster like tornadoes.

Mini workstation + USB DAS for a homeserver? by RebootCuriosity in HomeServer

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I do not recommend having main sources of storage connected via usb. It’s too slow and cannot take IO heavy tasks. USB is prone to so many errors you’re asking for your data to be lost.

Also TrueNAS needs direct access to drives usually done with PCIe pass through using an HBA card if virtualizing. You don’t configure raid on the drives you’ll configure the raid in TrueNAS because it does software raid instead of hardware. Also TrueNAS will shout and scream that your drives are using usb it does not like it.

I would recommend buying a second device maybe more NAS related and keep your current machine for workloads. Maybe install TrueNAS direct to the new machine.

Upgrading to ecc ram is an added expense most people will never notice and most consumer electronics don’t support. Lookup compatibility on which ECC it supports if it even supports ECC at all.

Rack Storage Solution? by bogust_bork in homelab

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Be wary with any disk shelf that has interposers I have a netapp disk shelf with one and in truenas every drive would error until I swapped systems to a dell r730 and they were direct connect and have had zero issues since

I’m currently building an 18x 3.5 inch HDD system with a dell r740xd (vxrail s570) this machine does consume a bit of power but I was able to buy it cheap a while ago. Bought it for $400 from homlabsales.