Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core No HDD SAS
Going for 50 AUD (32 USD)
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For Plex specifically it is a pass. This will have Xeons and Xeons don’t support quick sync. You are going to be much better off buying one of those micro desktops from Dell/HP/Lenovo.
That thing is going to be chugging power. Also note that it uses SAS drives, so you can’t just use consumer SATA drives in it. ALSO 410s are from the 2009-2011 era. Do you really want to depend on a 10+ year old PSU? What’s the cost going to be for you to find replacement parts?
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I would look at the list of CPUs that support hardware encoding and see if this Xeon is on the list. If it’s not, I would pass on it for a Plex server. It might be good for a NAS, though. It’s a pretty old CPU, but would be perfectly adequate for a NAS/NFS server.
Old Hardware, and very power hungry.
Look for desktop systems from main brands like Lenovo, Dell and HP, go for a G5400 or i3 8100 with 16gb of ram. Those are generally limited on hdd space, so if you need more than 2/3 HDDs, it would be better going DIY.
No don’t do it
Na mate. Power draw on that is a killer tbh. Grab yourself a cheap NUC with a relatively new intel CPU that supports quicksync and it will be more than enough.
You’ll get better performance from a 7th Gen core i5 box with about 1/10th the power usage, those go for $80 or so usually.
I am on year 4 or so with my T3610, still kicking.
If a Plex server mostly, get an N95 or N100 mini PC. Or really any new-ish NUC or mini PC will do.
Doubtful, it’s old and probably doesn’t have the AES instruction set.
If there’s a will there’s a way, I’ve gotten a Plex server to work on a raspberry pi and it can transcode two devices at one time, I’m sure it can work on that
Decent plex host, but you’ll hear it, and your power bill may sting a little because of it. Also, tanscoding won’t be great, consider a GPU if compatible.
I gave away one of these when my power bill hiked a few years ago. It cost roughly $50-$75 just to run the T510 at the time. It has 128GB DDR3 and 6x1tb HDD.
I switched to 2x NUC with a DIY NAS. Power bill at around $20-30 for 24/7 uptime.
Oh wow that is very significant!
If you need a loud space heater…
issues
1 the raid card it needs to be hba not sure if this server is capable.
2 really old hardware.
A raspberry pi has more computer power
If you’re willing to double your electricity bill, it’ll be fine.
