- Apr 1, 2008
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I am going to combine my home server and family PC into a single PC that does the role of both.
Current hardware:
i5-4690(non-K)
MSI ECO H97 mobo
16GB DDR3-1600 CL9 (2x8GB)
GT-750 1GB videocard
12TB in storage, plus a 250GB SSD system drive.
Blu-Ray writer drive.
Will reload with Win-10 when it becomes available.
Roles:
1. Plex media server that streams 1080p videos accross my network to various devices, and will need to transcode down to 720p at times.
2. File & Print server - central storage for all user files and all printing is routed thorugh it as well.
3. Backup server - client PC's will send their system backups to this server for storage.
4. DVD/Blu-Ray riping and re-encoding - slowly moving my large DVD & Blu-Ray collection to a digital format and this PC will be the primary device that does this.
5. General family PC use, heavy on the Netflix & Youtube use.
This PC will be on 24/7 and I will do the encoding overnight when it's not in use by anyone. I also plan on running both Bitdefender & Malware Bytes paid software just to make sure the PC doesn't get infected.
Do you think 16GB is enough, or should I bump it to either 24GB or max it out at 32GB?
Current hardware:
i5-4690(non-K)
MSI ECO H97 mobo
16GB DDR3-1600 CL9 (2x8GB)
GT-750 1GB videocard
12TB in storage, plus a 250GB SSD system drive.
Blu-Ray writer drive.
Will reload with Win-10 when it becomes available.
Roles:
1. Plex media server that streams 1080p videos accross my network to various devices, and will need to transcode down to 720p at times.
2. File & Print server - central storage for all user files and all printing is routed thorugh it as well.
3. Backup server - client PC's will send their system backups to this server for storage.
4. DVD/Blu-Ray riping and re-encoding - slowly moving my large DVD & Blu-Ray collection to a digital format and this PC will be the primary device that does this.
5. General family PC use, heavy on the Netflix & Youtube use.
This PC will be on 24/7 and I will do the encoding overnight when it's not in use by anyone. I also plan on running both Bitdefender & Malware Bytes paid software just to make sure the PC doesn't get infected.
Do you think 16GB is enough, or should I bump it to either 24GB or max it out at 32GB?
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