However, when not ripping, that windows server is going to be mostly quiet and idle. the extra threads will help (heck, even a cheap modern GPU will be beneficial here too for GPU computer help). In your case, that sounds like the windows server where you will be ripping / encoding media. I would put the faster CPU with more cores on the box that you intend to run the most intensive programs. You're thinking process on the CPU/CORES makese sense.
Even though it's server version, it's still fundamentally windows and can / should run just about any modern desktop versions of software. The Windows server should have no problem ripping those media. sounds like you've got a really good plan. My other option is to take my old server, which is a home built box with a H97 workstation motherboard and 16GB of non-ECC RAM and still has the 1231v3 Xeon in it and just buy an i5 type Xeon CPU off eBay to put in to the FreeNas server and use my old server mainly just as a transcoding system? I would prefer to move that 1231v3 Xeon CPU to one of the new servers that supports ECC RAM and just buy a low end Haswell i5 to put into my old server and sell it, but if the Windows server won't run those two programs well, then I would likely have to keep it. My only question is how well will those programs run on Windows Server 2016 Essentials that is also acting as a NVR & domain controller? I could then put the 1231v3 Xeon into the Windows server and use that more powerful CPU to do my transcoding. I was going to put that CPU in the FreeNas box so I had plenty of transcoding power, but probably will only have 3 Plex steams max, so the 1226v3 Xeon would be plenty. My old server has a Xeon 1231v3, which is similar to an i7(4c8t). My Windows server is a Lenovo TS140, which came with a Xeon 1226v3, which is similar to an i5(4c4t). Plus I don't often transcode one rip at a time, but instead build up several rips and then setup a transcode job in Handbrake with server rips queued up, which usually takes around 24hrs on an i7 type CPU. Both of my gaming PC's, main & bedroom, have i5 CPU's and no optical drives, so I need another machine to run these tasks.
To populate my Plex library, I need a system that can rip Blu-Ray titles(MakeMKV) and then transcode them to make them smaller(Handbrake). I am building 2 new servers in my home, one FreeNAS server to act as a NAS & Plex server, and a Windows Server 2016 Essentials to run an NVR program and act as a domain controller(because I can).
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