which case did you recommend? the silverstone ds380 or the supermicro CSE-721TQ-250B?
I have this case, itās okay but you canāt use the middle hard drive rack and a PCI card, even a half height card, at the same time. You can use a half height card but you have to modify the hard drive slot. Otherwise itās a good case.
I donāt know about this, I have an old AMD 8320e on my plex server and it has handled 4 simultaneous streams without showing any signs that it couldnāt handle more. Plex atleast (donāt know about alternatives) transcodes in chunks and then idles while the user is streaming that chunk so itās not constantly working on each stream.
which case?
Sorry, the silverstone
would you say the Supermicro would be a better choice? especially given that it comes with a bronze PSU?
I think those 2 chunky black connectors break out into 4 SATAs each. Iām not familiar with it though.
Sorry, didnāt read.
It only has 4 drive bays, there arenāt many small form factor cases with as many bays as the silverstone. I think there are some Fractal cases with a bunch of drive capacity that might be worth looking at too.
If you do get the silverstone itās not difficult to modify it to be able to use eight disks and a half height card (you will have to give up a disk for a taller card). Thereās a plastic cover on the side of the drive cage which you remove to add a PCI card and leave on to be able to slide a disk in. But if you cut a section of the plastic out above the rail that the drive slides on then you can have both without any problems.
what if the card is something like an NVME adapter or a TV tuner card?
If itās half height it will fit if not then you can only have 7 disks