On May 15th, 2019 (more than three years ago), I performed a performance boost to my media server by upgrading its CPU, Motherboard, and Memory. You can read that experience in this post.
Today, I am going to be doing the same. It looks like we are on a cadence of every 3 years or so to do a spec bump. This time around we are also changing the same items, but will include the power supply as well in the swap. I also decided to swap the boot drive hardware from an old SSD drive to an NVME drive. All of this resulted in the following hardware acquisitions, all from Amazon, which I find them to have lower pricing (when factoring free shipping through Prime), than Newegg even during Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers.
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8-Core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Radeon Graphics
- ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS AMD AM4 (3rd Gen Ryzen™)
- G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series DDR4 3600MHz 32GB(16GBx2) Memory Kit
- ASUS ROG Strix 850W Gold PSU
- Samsung 980 PRO SSD 1TB – M.2 NVMe
The above totalled $1045.60 CAD.
The plan is to spend the time today to roughly test out all the new hardware.
I quickly did a skeleton setup to make sure Ubuntu 22.04.01 Server Edition works with all hardware involved, especially the networking.
Once I know Ubuntu server is working good, I am now testing the server’s new 32GB DDR4 memory. This is running as I write this post and will let it run overnight.
The plan for tomorrow is to upgrade the current media server from Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. Once this is done, I can then backup everything, and move the new hardware into the old casing and hope everything works.