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From here : https://forums.truenas.com/t/intel-arc-pro-a40-support/22352 Yes, seems to be great !

Seems to be working with TrueNas: https://forums.truenas.com/t/intel-arc-pro-a40-support/22352

That’s for sure!

Would be nice if they could work !

Hi, Did someone try to use an Intel Arc Pro GPU (A40, A50 or A60) for hardware accelerated encoding with Plex ? I was wondering if it was useful/beneficial to buy one of these GPUs. Thanks

@dinecoj Thanks !

I actually have four more cages which came with the case; I can add up to 8 HDDs in this vertical space. (max 11 HDDs with one more HDD next to the power supply). For the RX 580, it was never used for Plex. It was actually in my brothers first PC. From what I know, it’s capable of 4K H.264 Encode/Decode, and HEVC/H.265 Encode/Decode (Hardware accelerated probably). More details here : https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/graphics/radeon-600-500-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-580.html As it’s not a top-of-the-line GPU, I don’t think that it will be able to handle a lot of stream. I need to do some testing. I’ll come back with more details !

Hi, I wanted to share my first NAS build! I had a lot of fun building it, except at the end where the bloody thing wasn't booting into bios (maybe because I hadn't fully plugged in the ATX cable into the power supply...) This is the hardware that I used : ASUS B650-PLUS AMD Ryzen 5 7600 AMD RX 580 (old GPU I had lying around, used for Plex) Corsair DDR5 32Gb (2x16Gb) 6000MHz Noctua NH-U12S (in chromax.black, soooooo cool) Fractal Design Meshify 2 Seasonic Vertex PX-750 4x Seagate IronWolf ST12000VN0007 12TB HDD I don't have the 12TB HDDs right now, so I installed two 1TB WD Red HDDs (in mirror) to at least make a first Time Machine backup. My NAS is plugged in via 2.5GbE, and I was quite surprised to see 300Mb/s writing speeds over SMB (during my Time Machine backup) ! Not too bad, right? Here is the beast (at least for me; I find it to be quite big, even if it's not the XL version of the Meshify 2 lol). I really love the all black look, especially the Noctua NH-U12S which is sooooo clean in black. My motherboard only has x4 SATA III ports, so I'm planning to buy an 8 ports SATA controller (from StarTech.com, Ref. Num. 8P6G-PCIE-SATA-CARD) when I'll want to have more storage. I could also add two more M.2 SSDs but they wouldn't be really useful for me as discussed here : And that's supposed to be my cable management (First time building a PC for me). Not bad right? I think that my build is quite flexible, I love it! Cheers!

Thanks ! As for now, my server is only plugged in via 2.5GbE so SSD caching doesn't seem to be useful for me. I could add two other SSDs which would indeed make a fast SSD pool (probably useful for my Time Machine backups ?). I'll see...

Hi, I'm almost done building my NAS with the following hardware : ASUS B650-PLUS AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Corsair DDR5 32Gb (2x16Gb) 6000MHz Noctua NH-U12S (in chromax.black, soooooo cool) Fractal Design Meshify 2 Seasonic Vertex PX-750 4x Seagate IronWolf ST12000VN0007 12TB HDD My motherboard has room for 3 M.2 SSDs, I already use one of the slots for my boot drive. Knowing that HexOS (rather TrueNAS) uses RAM caching, I wanted to know in which cases does SSD caching help ? Does it improve writing speeds ? And reading speeds ? Thanks !

I can confirm that the Ryzen 5 7600 has an iGPU. More details here : https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/7000-series/amd-ryzen-5-7600.html

I totally agree ! This would save users from having the admin password problem (with special characters) !

At first I thought that it might be overkill but then when you think of it, it's actually not a bad idea. An SSD could fail because of a firmware problem or something else, and having two SSDs in raid 1 could be a good failsafe. And maybe you could buy 250gb SSDs instead of 500gb ones ? (in the hardware requirements, only 16gb are said to be needed so...) 500 gigs SSDs wouldn't be used really much (couldn't be used for cache for example...)