I was wanting to decommission an old Dell R710 that's running in a hot garage and run UnRaid in-house (nice and cool). I also got tired of the old QNAP 2 bay NAS that's way outdated.
I have the following Mobo:
- ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO (WiFi 6) AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Motherboard (PCIe 4.0, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS Flashback, HDMI 2.1, USB 3.2 Gen 2
Because the Mobo supports ECC and the CPU I hear as well, but not officially I wanted to run 64 or 128gb or RAM.
Was considering this:
- Kingston Server Premier 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 ECC CL22 DIMM 2Rx8 Server Memory
- CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor
I am not looking into overclocking anything just UnRaid + maybe 4-5 VMs. Because Mobo support 8/Sata connectors, I should be fine with a LSI card in IT-Mode if I go over 8 drives. I was planning to get a Video card to do some transcoding and any Photoshop work I do in one of the Vms.
The ECC is for set it and forget it and run it 24/7 and not worry about anything that can happen. I also read that you can run/test your non-ecc ram 24-hrs or even a week long depending on GB and see if there are any potential issues with it + having to run that 1-2 times a year for piece of mind.
Thanks any feedback is appreciate it.