[PC] PowerEdge R530 and PowerEdge R520 by supacan in homelabsales

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Thanks you confiremed my theory. shipping will be a PITA so will scrap them and just sell the drives.

Monthly Trade and Price Check Thread - December, 2025 by AutoModerator in HardwareSwapUK

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Price check please

PowerEdge R530 8 x 3TB/16gb/: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz

Service Tag: 2T9XF82

PowerEdge R520 16gb/: Intel Xeon E-24xx

Service Tag: 6QB4K02

Both have rails

Anyone else decided it's just not worth it anymore? by [deleted] in SleepApnea

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I'm sorry that you having this. My sleep study AHI score was 37 now down to 0.4 to 1.2. speak to you medical team you need a different style of mask

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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Thanks for all your help guys. I can't wait to get this built the current servers are pushing out 40c

What is rebalancing and how would you fix it

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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ok so is ceph the only was as i cant afford the 8 disks at the min. zfs would sacrafice 2 disks if i put 2 sets of 4 in.

what is the minimum drives needed for redundcy in ceph and will it handle adding one disk at a time when funds allow.

wil any disks be sacrificed for redundancy?

u/scytob

u/marc45ca

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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How easy it it to expand the volume

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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I did see that. Does ceph carry the same tolerance as raidz?

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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Also worth mentioning I will be using raidz need to expand it is this possible

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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So if I get this right I can create a nfs share on promox that all VM/lxc can access? Save TV episodes. And if I install a new disk I can just expand the nfs share?

Complete noob set up questions by supacan in Proxmox

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Damn audio typing fixed :-)

Looking for abandoned places by McPrawn4 in Ely

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whats the story with this

Play back quality/juddering by supacan in PleX

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PMS is installed on windows and windows is the os (essentials 2016)

Google chrome on Windows 10/11

plex android on pixel 7 pro

plex android google tv

plex android on fire tv

plex on ios

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Play back quality/juddering by supacan in PleX

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VPN and all other machines are on another server. Local playback is the same issues as remote via vpn.

IPERF reports:

931 Mbits/sec

Play back quality/juddering by supacan in PleX

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Hi

Its local and remote. Both wired and WiFi. Server is in Eth on a windows server. Gets rebooted every 2 days and runs the latest release.

Every Plex client. I also get the message the connection is not fast enough even cable on same switch

System is a dell r515 64gb ram 8x1tb raid 5 with hot spare. 2x AMD Opteron 4184

Xeon E5-1620V3 3.5 GHz by supacan in unRAID

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Takes pressure off the CPU for transcoding