steakboy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Here are the 2 devices: Dell Optiplex 3070, 9th Gen i5-9500, IGPU, 32gb ram, 256gb ssd boot, 10gb networking PCIE card Dell Precision 7520, xeon e3-1505m, 4GB Nvidia Quadro M2200 mobile, 32gb ram, 256gb ssd boot, 10gb networking PCIE card. Essentially the same, but ones a xeon laptop, and the other is a intel consumer tower. I know 'better' is subjective. But often times 2 products can be so different in age/useage/support, that 1 is clearly better. What I wanna do: 24TB NAS in Raid1. Docker for Pi-hole. DNS and DHCP server. VPN. Plex. Classic things like that. What im wondering is which is more power efficient, which is going to have a better time encoding videos. Which would YOU use as your first time HexOS machine? (ignore form factor. I can make both physically work for my needs). Quote
dinecoj Posted January 4 Posted January 4 How do you plan to install drives on the laptop? Often times laptops have limited, soldered components with little room for expandability. Connecting drives over USB is not recommended. How many drives can the optiplex case / mobo support? Both CPUs have quick sync support, which is intel's on-chip transcoding which should be perfectly competent for some plex streams. Quote
steakboy Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 1 hour ago, dinecoj said: How do you plan to install drives on the laptop? Often times laptops have limited, soldered components with little room for expandability. Connecting drives over USB is not recommended. How many drives can the optiplex case / mobo support? Both CPUs have quick sync support, which is intel's on-chip transcoding which should be perfectly competent for some plex streams. So I already have both devices, so I’m thinking if I should just shove everything onto the optiplex (supports 3 HDDs without a pcie data expander) or if the laptop is worth anything and maybe put my docker container and put the non storage demanding processes (vpn. Dns. DHCP) on the laptop, and keep the optiplex just for storage Quote
dinecoj Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I always like some separation of concerns - wouldn't want a broken update to your NAS to bring down your DNS or DHCP server 🙂 Quote
Mobius Posted January 4 Posted January 4 18 hours ago, steakboy said: Here are the 2 devices: Dell Optiplex 3070, 9th Gen i5-9500, IGPU, 32gb ram, 256gb ssd boot, 10gb networking PCIE card Dell Precision 7520, xeon e3-1505m, 4GB Nvidia Quadro M2200 mobile, 32gb ram, 256gb ssd boot, 10gb networking PCIE card. Essentially the same, but ones a xeon laptop, and the other is a intel consumer tower. I know 'better' is subjective. But often times 2 products can be so different in age/useage/support, that 1 is clearly better. What I wanna do: 24TB NAS in Raid1. Docker for Pi-hole. DNS and DHCP server. VPN. Plex. Classic things like that. What im wondering is which is more power efficient, which is going to have a better time encoding videos. Which would YOU use as your first time HexOS machine? (ignore form factor. I can make both physically work for my needs). Its kinda hard to tell whatll be more efficient without checking at the wall. Conventional wisdom says the one without a dgpu should be more efficient but that goes out the window since the precision is a laptop and i dunno how to estimate that. The precision would likely run circles around the optiplex when it comes to encoding provided that you can get nvenc to work with the quadro. A quick google search does show that the m2200 has nvenc support. honestly i don't think you can go wrong with either system. If you had a kill-a-watt meter i would have just suggested plugging them both in and picking whichever uses less power at idle Quote
ubergeek Posted January 6 Posted January 6 It's hard for me to judge power usage , I would reccomend getting a kill-a-watt and running each and do the math. Quote
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