new server for my home
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That looks like it will be a really nice build, but I have to agree with @T_Minus I think it's bordering overkill for what you are saying your planning for it, unless you are going to be doing something else with it that actually needs the horses 
For comparison, I am using a single Xeon 1245 v2 with 32GB RAM and ESXi 6u2. I have a Debian based VM running ZoL, providing a few ZVol's for my storage over iscsi, another Debian based VM running Plex and other little useful trinkets, a server 2012 VM providing domain services to my network and a CentOS 5 based VM running a small Asterisk PBX. None of it even taxes the CPU. I have an Intel Quad Gbps card doing LACP to my switch and I can and regularly do, stream several 1080p streams to devices around my home while playing with other VM's etc. Aside from raising the temp in the box a couple of degrees when it's running full blast on load, it never breaks a sweat. I would imagine this experience is generally repeated here in the forums. I haven't tried streaming 4K, nor do I have the endpoints to support it so can't really comment on viability, but I would think that my little setup would cope with perhaps 1 or 2 4K streams so long as I was not doing anything too serious elsewhere.
For comparison, I am using a single Xeon 1245 v2 with 32GB RAM and ESXi 6u2. I have a Debian based VM running ZoL, providing a few ZVol's for my storage over iscsi, another Debian based VM running Plex and other little useful trinkets, a server 2012 VM providing domain services to my network and a CentOS 5 based VM running a small Asterisk PBX. None of it even taxes the CPU. I have an Intel Quad Gbps card doing LACP to my switch and I can and regularly do, stream several 1080p streams to devices around my home while playing with other VM's etc. Aside from raising the temp in the box a couple of degrees when it's running full blast on load, it never breaks a sweat. I would imagine this experience is generally repeated here in the forums. I haven't tried streaming 4K, nor do I have the endpoints to support it so can't really comment on viability, but I would think that my little setup would cope with perhaps 1 or 2 4K streams so long as I was not doing anything too serious elsewhere.
I think STH'ers are asleep on this one!!!
Those E5 V2 CPUs need LGA socket 2011 not 2011-3. Basically, the motherboard and CPU's you picked are incompatible. You need either V3 CPUs or a X9 series version of that board (Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9DRi-F is the same board)
One other idea for you, is that if you're buying a new motherboard and don't already have the LSI controller, you can get one with the LSI built-in. X9 series that'd be this Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9DR7-LN4F-JBOD except that board has 4 1GbE and a 1 generation newer LSI hba (2308 vs 2008)
If you're going for V3 CPUs, something like this one - Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10DRH-CLN4 would be a good choice.
With the X10 / V3 combo you get 10 6gbps SATA3 ports. With the X9/ V2 combo you get 2 6gbps SATA3 and 8 3gbps SATA2. Especially if you're using cheap and fast SATA SSDs, the X10 / V3 combo essentially gives you another 8-port 6gbps HBA onboard unless you need SAS.
12 Cores instead of 4... a nice jump in cores, but a drop in frequency.
If you want to keep high frequency and middle road on the cores the E5-1650 V3 is a great choice, it will draw less power than 2 CPUs too... not sure if you really "need" 2 physical CPUs or 12 Cores for streaming 2 streams. The 1650 will handle streaming with ease and provide some fast cores for a virtualized desktop...
If you want to keep high frequency and middle road on the cores the E5-1650 V3 is a great choice, it will draw less power than 2 CPUs too... not sure if you really "need" 2 physical CPUs or 12 Cores for streaming 2 streams. The 1650 will handle streaming with ease and provide some fast cores for a virtualized desktop...
Just as a point of reference my server has a Xeon D-1540 and my server is used by 20+ people remotely. I often times have 6-10 streams going at once and the D-1540 handles it without issue. Here is a comparison of it compared to the E5-1650 v3 just FYI.
PassMark - CPU Performance Comparison
Also, if you are using Plex you can now use their Optimized Versions to create different versions of your media for more direct play support to take some of the workload off the CPU. Storage is so cheap these days (I have all 8TB disks in my server) so why not.
8TB disks...yowza, enjoy those rebuild times, hope you have a good raid strategy and a damn good backup. :-D
As it's just films/tvshows if I lost it all, even tho it would be a pain I won't back it up
Did a rebuild a few weeks ago and it took 24 hours the same as my parity checks. And yes I have a full backup of my array that is off-site via VPN. I only store bulk media on these array's so even if I lost additional disks beyond parity having to re-populate the lost disk(s) worth of media is not going to kill me.
+1 this is a great reason to use something like UnRAID or SnapRAID for your bulk media.
Unfortunately, E5-1650 V3 is not compatible with OP's motherboard. It needs an E5-2600 v3/v4 series and doesnt take E5-1600 series.
As far as I can tell he started this thread to ask for opinions about his build... not telling us the hardware he already purchased.