gerkenator

A month later I love this box. Working as intended fix a myriad of issues I was having with Windows machines. Eliminated 2 physical machines and 3 virtual ones from my home environment. I call that a win!

That's pretty sweet, I kind of fell into Networking, wanted to work on Systems but ehh. I've gotten to play with a lot of neat stuff. So far I've kicked my TDARR node down as well as my server VM. It's working great. I'm letting the new server chew through all my files. Once that finishes I'll look into moving Plex over. But I'm really liking this system a lot.

I understand it can be hard to know if it's going to work for the user, I wasn't very forthcoming with details since I was mainly looking for concept. I'm a Network Engineer with a heavy background in Desktop and Server hardware probably should've led with that. I have a ton of gear here at the house. This is just my first venture with Unraid and I want to make sure my hope are realistic before I spend a few hundred and put it together only to be disappointed. My main goal is condensing functions and trimming a little power consumption. It's rather out of control right now to be honest. I've been an wintel guy for a while. My gaming rig is running an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X when I put that in is when this hardware became spare lol. Thanks again for the help.

I believe this answers my question. Currently the machines are pretty lean. The only times I could foresee having some issues would be in the event where TDARR has a substantial queue and Plex needs to encode or serve up multiple streams. Plex is running on an i5-3470 with 16 GB RAM TDARR is running on an i5-4570 with 6GB RAM and a mech drive. I really slapped it together and forgot about it. The mobo specs are here https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-Z390-GAMING-PRO-CARBON/Specification Lastly thanks for your quick reply and help!

So I have some desires and would like to know if Unraid can be used in this way. I believe it can but having never used it...... I have a couple of bare metal windows boxes. One running PLEX on a DMZ net One running TDARR on my INSIDE net Each have a dedicated graphics card for h265 encoding. I have a spare barebone pc Intel 8700k with 16 or 32GB of Ram, don't remember exactly it's enough for sure. I would like to run Unraid on this pc and convert my installs or rebuild a new on Unraid. I would be moving both graphics cards into this box. I believe I can run these as containers rather than full vms and assign a graphics card to each of them. This pc I would prefer to have 3 network interfaces but could get by with 2 if needed by combining MGMT and INSIDE. I want to protect access to the GUI from the rest of the DMZ net. MGMT - Web GUI access INSIDE - (TDARR) DMZ - (PLEX) Anyone see any issues with this plan?