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That's dope! How many gigs of RAM do you get out of these two sticks? Are you running the HDD's in a raid setup? What OS are you using?
Memory was really overpriced at that time, so only 16GB but I barely use half of that.
The HHD'S are split into a RAID5 TV folder, and RAID1 movie folder because I occasionally have 5+ people watching the same movie on Plex. These are old 8TB SMR drives.
I switched from a 2U 12 bay server running Ubuntu, to this setup running Windows because it's a lot easier for me.
Yea that RAID 1 setup seems weird to me as well. Have you looked into UnRaid? The added cache pool might be hery helpful in this instance. I see a huge peek when like the new episode of (insert popular show here) every one trying to watch it. UnRaid will move a copy to the Cache Pool automatically and in my server the cache pool is 2x RAID 0 1TB NVME drives. Its not unusual to see 8-10 users watching the same thing on my server and mone of them even hit the big spinning 10TB drives.
I heard it has a lot of advantages, I just struggled for so long with Linux and I had no idea how well QuickSync works for unRAID. When my Ubuntu server hit the fan I just went back to the familiar.