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HP Z800 as Unraid server

Hey all, Happy seasons greetings to you all!

So I've just got hold of one these from a friend who was just going to throw it away and thought it's going to be better than my i5 based rig I'm using at the minute.

The spec is: HP Z800 Processor #1: 2.66 GHz Hex-Core Xeon (X5650) - 6.40 GT/12MB Processor #2: 2.66 GHz Hex-Core Xeon (X5650) - 6.40 GT/12MB Memory: 24GB - (6 x 4GB) - DDR3 ECC Reg - 1333Mhz Hard Drive #1: ATA Crucial_CT250mX2 SCSI Solid State Disk - Actual size 231GB Hard Drive #2: ATA CT1000MX500SSD1 SCSI Solid State Disk - Actual size 931GB Hard Drive #3: No Hard Drive #3 Hard Drive #4: No Hard Drive #4 Graphics Card: nVidia Quadro 4000 - 2GB GDDR5 - 1 x Dual DVI & 2 x DisplayPort Optical Drive: 5.25" DVD-RW Operating System: Windows 10 Pro WiFi Adapter: TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N Adapter

I'm not really worried about the SSD, optical drive or the WiFi card so they will likely go the journey.

My thoughts were yes it's got a few years on it but it's a lot more expandable than what I'm currently using from 2015 which has an i5 CPU and 16GB of ram.

Since it has two NICs on it I was thinking of running Frigate as a docker which I'm guessing I could direct cuts ait to use one NIC and everything else to the other, does that sound a reasonable plan?

So, is this a worthy replacement for my old server or should I send it to server heaven?

Not likely to start any works on it until the new year so have a little time and was considering buying one of these anyway to remove the data from the onboard sata ports on my current server anyway. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325677573475?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20221115143302%26meid%3D831118de48074e6baa2613a2932530b2%26pid%3D101613%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dag%26itm%3D325677573475%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2Mobile%26brand%3DDell&_trksid=p4375194.c101613.m146925&_trkparms=parentrq%3Aca49357918b0a8d34d37089efffff9e6%7Cpageci%3Adf4c5619-825f-11ee-9639-aefcf921261f%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage

Thanks everyone and Happy Christmas to you all.

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Questions around disk space and parity in unraid
  • 250GB - cache
    1TB - Pool
    2TB - Pool
    10TB - Parity

    With only 3TB in the pool you're going to be increasing the size of the pool potentially quite quickly depending on if you're ripping DVDs or Blu-Rays to it.

    You'll soon need another drive to boost that pool size and I promise, that parity will keep those tears at bay if something happens.

  • copying from unassigned device to array

    So I've recently had a power cut that caused a few issues though I had just bought a new 8TB ironwolf to replace a couple of older 1TB drives from the dawn of time.

    Typically though, this drive was DOA and the issues have taken out one of the 1TB drives.

    I've bought a new 8TB WD Red that works great. I've used unbalance to migrate the old drives data to the new drive so I can get rid of them as they were starting to show smart errors.

    My question is this.

    The seemingly dead 1TB looks like it's working through a USB to SATA adaptor on unassigned devices and I would like to get the data from it back on my array but I'm unsure of the command to use with rsync to copy it from the old drive to the new array drive.

    Obviously unbalance can't see it as it's an unassigned device.

    Any help would be really appreciated.

    Thanks

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    Just order a Deck!
  • I'm about to pile into my 50th and older games for me can be emulated on a pocket watch 😂

    I love my late 80s early nineties schmups so I play on my son's deck through retrodeck when he's asleep.

  • Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison
  • Love these write ups. I lived through the platform wars fighting on the side of Light (Spectrum) against the hordes of darkness (C64) and the one grey teary Amstrad user.

    Loved Bomb Jack, it's a great game and I think it's going into the curriculum for the kids next week to show them a great game with a simple game dynamic compared to them playing tosh on Roblox all of the time.

    I remember playing the arcade on a ferry to France as part of a school trip. Best part of the trip was this cab.

    Thanks for the memories.

  • [RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege
  • Similar issue here, full fibre roll out is estimated to be complete in 2025.

    I'm just outside Newcastle on the coast and could get Virgin but my neighbours have had a nightmare with it.

    They only rolled out their fibre about three months ago so there might be issues with that

  • [RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege
  • Where the hell in the UK are you? I'm in the North and pay £26 for 60mbps but get more like 70 due to how close I am to the street cabinet though I haven't even got copper cable here, just crappy aluminium that is so old I think Alexander Graham Bell himself fitted them.

  • Searching for a 'library manager' that looks awesome.
  • I usually scan my media with Media Elch before I move it into Kodi/Jellyfin then I know the files and folders have the right names and all Metadata is correct.

    TV shows are grabbed, named and tidied with pyMedusa.

    I use Kodi on a RaspberryPi with the Jellyfin add-on so if I watch something remotely then the watched status is synced everywhere.

  • Recommended FLAC converter?
  • If you're using Windows then Foobar 2000 is great. I use it for manually managing and tidying my collection in addition to converting pretty much any format to any other format.

    That being said, you can install it as a snap in Linux as well if that's your poison.

  • Steam Deck™ Certified Refurbished
  • And base model still unavailable in the UK.

    If I was just buying for myself I could live with the mid range price point. But for four kids that's a lot of money to shell out.

    I've got a better chance of buying buying crocodile tears or hens teeth.

  • If I want to stream locally to multiple platforms what is best software to use?
  • Also using Jellyfin and it's great.

    Regarding the number of different clients, yes they have less than Plex but remember Jellyfin is a free product and is a considerably younger project so more clients will come in time.

    I run a Jellyfin add-on with my Kodi setup and it runs great and streams to three of my mother's LG TVs, one uses a web client as the official client hadn't been signed off by LG, another uses the official client (LG run multiple versions of their WebOS) and the third runs the official client on fire stick from the Amazon app store.

  • Do you store all your media? And how?
  • Absolutely second Unraid, easy to set up, Parity drive gives you protection against drive failure and dockers are an immense bonus. I have Jellyfish as a docker to serve my media around my home or when I'm out and about. Can use Gelli on Android just to listen to the music on my server.

    Other plus, Unraid is essentially a JBOD so you can increase its size when ever you need to.

    Think I paid £60-70 about 8-9 years ago and it's been worth every penny.

    Can't praise it enough.

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  • Bit late to this party but R-Type was one of favourites at the arcades and back when ther were so many outstanding games.

    I occasionally get my kids to try them and despite the fact the controls are so much easier they can't play them, the games are too hard!!!

    I feel the same way about their games or at least the controls, I feel like I need to learn to be a court stenographer to use the controls using multiple combos to do something. Pah I say!

  • Golden Axe: A home port comparison
  • Sorry about that, following so many communities at first after joining Lemmy good stuff dropped off the bottom. Unsubscribed to a few so I can catch what I need.

    I'll look up that R-Type post, I spent a fortune on that cab as a bairn I should have shares in Irem.

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  • If you can buy one then do it. I'm in the UK and I've been trying to get one for months.

    I'm sure they pop up from time to time but I can't spend every waking moment refreshing the page to grab one.

    Fingers crossed one pops up soon though.

  • Golden Axe: A home port comparison
  • I grew up on Sinclair machines and yeah the graphics looked like a ceefax page that had died a horrific death but the gameplay was generally great.

    Other classic conversions that actually looked pretty good despite the Spectrum limitations and played great were Karnov and R-Type.

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