HandBrake

I've been playing with handbrake-cli on Xubuntu 18.04 crunching MKV files originally ripped from Blu-ray using MakeMKV. MakeMKV is great for dumping Blu-ray media, but it creates very large files 35GB or more sometimes. In under 8 months I ended up filling our 8TB drive mostly because of the Blu-ray...

Description of problem or question: Building a new system. Already have a 6 core Xeon 5650 processor but wondering if people think it's worth buying a dual socket board, and another Xeon 5650. I can get ECC RAM fairly cheap so the biggest expense would likely be the board. Or is it better just to s...