Recent content by rthorntn

Hi, I ordered the following for a home server and I would really appreciate some advice: Intel Core i7 7800X Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 3 MSI GeForce GT 1030 Heatsink It will serve SMB, Plex, Zoneminder & Home Assistant as well as transcoding my Blurays to x265. It's going to be running 24/7...

Trying this in the past 8-10fps average is the max, with 1080p it only uses around 6 cores. I'm pretty sure MulticoreWare Inc have a commercial product that does this, RipBot on Windows has hacked something like this together but I don't think MulticoreWare are very happy about it. Anyone...

I remember H.265 encoding an old B&W film "Death by Hanging", the encode was larger than the Bluray, H.265 doesn't seem to like excessive grain, I remember there is a grain tuning option on x265 but I didn't try it. H.265 seems to love clean digital camera video and 3D!

Thanks everyone, what amazes me is the compression, a file size decrease average of 74%

My findings on 5 simultaneous Handbrake CLI encodes from blu-ray 1080p to H.265 with source framerate and audio passthrough at CRF 17 using 24 x Xeon cores with HT at 2.5GHz (AVX2), 192GB DDR4 RAM. OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Handbrake installed with apt using John Stebbins PPA, all packages up to date...

Hi, Sorry to bother you all. I'm in the process of transcoding hundreds of 1080p movies to h.265 using Handbrake CLI, using a watercooled Linux server with 24 cores of Xeon with AVX2. I basically want to have multiple x265 transcodes running to make best use of the hardware, would I simply...

Hi, Like a complete idiot I just went out and bought one of these used, having read an incorrect review that mentioned Mac compatibility... So I have been trying to figure out the best way to get this thing working in a Mac environment. I would like to use the networking on it...

Hi, This is a strange request for help, I have a custom case, it's basically a big black cube, I am not happy about the disk area in the top and am looking for suggestions on alternative enclosures. In cm it's a void roughly 38 long x 35 wide x 17 high accessible from the top of the case. I...

Thanks raiderj. Does anyone have any opinions on whether I should put the troubled two in to a windows machine and run WinDFT? UPDATE: WinDFT fails, fingers crossed HGST will accept two US disks in AU.

Unbelievable, regular SATA, bare metal Ubuntu 12.04 server, the two bad drives basically stop Ubuntu from booting with the same "buffer I/O error", oddly they were mounted in the "cage" right next to each other, that does mean that I didn't run SMART on them, the other four disk passed...

Thanks! raiderj - totally agree, I was clutching at straws hoping the disks would come good under another OS, I will do as you say under Linux. _Gea - I didn't even notice a napp-it ESXi VM, that's awesome, once I have isolated any faulty disks I will probably go with this option.

What a nightmare, luckily I have no data on there yet! ESXi 5.5 on a Supermicro X9SRH-7TF with 24GB ECC RAM, the onboard LSI 2308 IT in passthrough mode. 32GB and 64GB SLC SSDs Six (new disks in vacuum-sealed bags dated Jan 2011) Hitachi HDS5C302-A580 2TB drives (that have been lying around...

Shoot, I wonder if this would have helped, an AMI leak that has been taken down: http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.jetway.com.tw/CODE/

Loco Laptop, I have the new Xeon and I can now get it to POST.

Hopefully the kind of road block that you can get through :)