Hi, new to Unraid and looking for build advice for a 24/7 on system.
I've already purchased Hard Drives: 6x8TB WD Red Pro NAS drives
I will be setting them up with dual parity and will likely purchase 2-4 more at some point in the near future
Parts I am repurposing: Seasonic Platinum rated PSU, Serveraid card flashed to IT Mode
I have access to buy any WD or Sandisk SSDs at great prices so will go with those as boot drives, cache drives, whatever is recommended for use with Unraid.
Primary use case: Media and streaming server using Emby, HD Homerun for antenna TV
Other uses: downloading Linux iso on Usenet, and will probably find other uses like Pi hole or similar, VPN server, VMs, etc
If GPU Passthrough works well on Unraid I would love to have Windows and Linux desktops and just use this as main system
Gig up/down fiber will be getting installed this summer so I will also be allowing some family members to stream, so it would be nice if it can handle multiple transcodes efficiently.
Budget for remaining parts (CPU, Motherboard, RAM, SSDs, case, GPU or GPUs, CPU cooler, anything I'm missing?) -- Would like to keep it under $1500, but willing to spend up to $2k
I have access to a Microcenter about an hour away, as well as all the usual online options.