Thejs1234 Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) 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! Edited January 3 by Thejs1234 Remove unnecessary spaces Quote
dinecoj Posted January 3 Posted January 3 That case looks great. I'm sure you could 3D print some more drive cages to fill up that entire vertical stack with drives. Have you used the RX580 for plex before? I wonder how many streams it can handle 1 Quote
Thejs1234 Posted January 3 Author Posted January 3 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 ! Quote
dinecoj Posted January 3 Posted January 3 @Thejs1234 Re: AMD GPUs and plex hardware transcoding, see https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ Quote *Note: Our hardware-transcoding system has technical support for many dedicated AMD graphics cards, but we haven’t done official, full testing on those. Support for AMD GPUs is provided “as is” and your mileage may vary. It is recommended that you use Intel Quick Sync Video or a dedicated NVIDIA GPU. Best of luck! 🙂 Quote
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