This is a pretty touchy-feely post, I don't have any metrics to discuss, and I didn't take any notes, PLUS I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to many folks here, BUT...
I had an RPI3 running OMV with a Plex server for quite some time. Two self-powered 5TB USB 3.0 drives attached as RAID 1, and for the most part it was "fine."
However, over time the Plex client - an Amazon Fire TV stick - started telling me "Your processor isn't beefy enough to transcode this video" more and more often.
After some googling, I landed on the Rock64 as most likely a decent hopeful upgrade - at the VERY least the 4GB version would be a good side-grade and give the system more RAM to play with. So, ordered, arrived and started playing with it last Friday eve.
I used Ayufan's 0.5.15 jessie OMV image and of course it booted right up no worries.
The first challenge I felt I had was, would mdadm recognize the old RAID? And jumping crappity, it DID! "mdadm --assemble --scan" and it said "started device md127." No complaints whatsoever!
Set up the old shares no worries, updated plex server, added the library files, and kaPOW I was in business!
Could. Not. Have. Gone. More. Smoothly.
(Actually I take that back. One of the USB drives is also a USB3 hub, and through my tangle of wires I managed to plug it into itself right out of the gate. Haha oops WHERE IS MY DRIVE? Duh.)
On a whim, and since the thing was only using maybe 300mb of RAM, I thought hey, let me take down this SECOND rpi3 that I have running as Minecraft bukkit server, and see if the Rock64 will take it as well.
Had to manually install the Java 8 jdk (shout out to the IRC #Rock64 channel btw, they are super helpful there!) and rebuild the server jar file - but that was also amazingly fast and efficient, and holy crap if it didn't START RIGHT UP ALSO! I gave it 2gb of RAM and hopped into my old world with my son for a good ol' time. With a little luck I won't have to restart it daily, too!
And of course, the USB3 kicks ass. Between that and the gigabit, my Plex clients respond lightning-fast.
Can't believe I "made do" with the old server for so long. OH well. Actually: serverS - two of them. Now running in one. Whee! There was seriously so much that could have gone wrong that didn't!
(Gush, gush, gush...)
I had an RPI3 running OMV with a Plex server for quite some time. Two self-powered 5TB USB 3.0 drives attached as RAID 1, and for the most part it was "fine."
However, over time the Plex client - an Amazon Fire TV stick - started telling me "Your processor isn't beefy enough to transcode this video" more and more often.
After some googling, I landed on the Rock64 as most likely a decent hopeful upgrade - at the VERY least the 4GB version would be a good side-grade and give the system more RAM to play with. So, ordered, arrived and started playing with it last Friday eve.
I used Ayufan's 0.5.15 jessie OMV image and of course it booted right up no worries.
The first challenge I felt I had was, would mdadm recognize the old RAID? And jumping crappity, it DID! "mdadm --assemble --scan" and it said "started device md127." No complaints whatsoever!
Set up the old shares no worries, updated plex server, added the library files, and kaPOW I was in business!
Could. Not. Have. Gone. More. Smoothly.
(Actually I take that back. One of the USB drives is also a USB3 hub, and through my tangle of wires I managed to plug it into itself right out of the gate. Haha oops WHERE IS MY DRIVE? Duh.)
On a whim, and since the thing was only using maybe 300mb of RAM, I thought hey, let me take down this SECOND rpi3 that I have running as Minecraft bukkit server, and see if the Rock64 will take it as well.
Had to manually install the Java 8 jdk (shout out to the IRC #Rock64 channel btw, they are super helpful there!) and rebuild the server jar file - but that was also amazingly fast and efficient, and holy crap if it didn't START RIGHT UP ALSO! I gave it 2gb of RAM and hopped into my old world with my son for a good ol' time. With a little luck I won't have to restart it daily, too!
And of course, the USB3 kicks ass. Between that and the gigabit, my Plex clients respond lightning-fast.
Can't believe I "made do" with the old server for so long. OH well. Actually: serverS - two of them. Now running in one. Whee! There was seriously so much that could have gone wrong that didn't!
(Gush, gush, gush...)