Seems pretty good for the cashback price. I wonder how it would perform 24/7 with vms.
Can you get away with standard DDR 3?
lbphillips to TeamMCS
2 Dec 162#2
Mine runs 24/7 with 4 or 5 hyper-v running on windows.
Standard DDR 3 works fine too, I have 24gb in mine.
Keydogg to TeamMCS
2 Dec 16#12
I have the same spec (pretty much) in my Lenovo Thinkserver and it's been running 4 VMs 24/7 for just short of 2 years. I'm running 16GB RAM and now thinking about a 1TB SSD but concerned on the life span of a 24/7 SSD.
This. I'd be interested to see how the power usage compares to the Microserver
poison3k
2 Dec 16#6
would this be any good for plex? streaming 2 x 1080p (to laptop and a new amazon fire tv box)
lbphillips
2 Dec 161#7
I have no way of measuring power draw, sorry.
I run plex server, on windows 10, in a hyper-v container, it manages to easily serve 2 devices at the same time - while several other VMs are running on the T20 box too.
Uridium
2 Dec 161#8
similarly I'm running Plex on a Win 2016 VMWare VM along with a Win10 VM and a MacOS VM and it happily streams multiple 1080p streams to clients around the house at the same time.
Now I'm not sure how it would handle multiple Plex streams if they were all being transcoded at the same time but it's fine with the odd one transcoding. All depends on what format your Plex clients need. If they will happily playback the streams native then you'll have no issues.
Mine was bought as the lower spec Pentium dual core server then I picked up a cheap Xeon CPU on eBay (£35) as this works out much cheaper (Dual core T20 only cost me £75! and i had spare disk and Ram kicking around)
My VM's are running on SSD storage though which does make a huge performance difference and the ESXi OS is running from a 4gb USB stick.
tezray
2 Dec 16#9
wish I had the money the microserver gen8 has been retired in favour or a normal i3 pc it was just too noisy didn't like my 3tb hard drives they ran too hot and the graphics card noisy annoying thing this would be ideal
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Can you get away with standard DDR 3?
Standard DDR 3 works fine too, I have 24gb in mine.
Great value this machine, though!
I run plex server, on windows 10, in a hyper-v container, it manages to easily serve 2 devices at the same time - while several other VMs are running on the T20 box too.
Now I'm not sure how it would handle multiple Plex streams if they were all being transcoded at the same time but it's fine with the odd one transcoding. All depends on what format your Plex clients need. If they will happily playback the streams native then you'll have no issues.
Mine was bought as the lower spec Pentium dual core server then I picked up a cheap Xeon CPU on eBay (£35) as this works out much cheaper (Dual core T20 only cost me £75! and i had spare disk and Ram kicking around)
My VM's are running on SSD storage though which does make a huge performance difference and the ESXi OS is running from a 4gb USB stick.