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Thanks! That looks like it could be ideal!

Thanks! Lots to process I’m trying to work out if ZFS is really worth it for my use case, I’m leaning towards not. I like the idea of drives powering down when they’re not in use as they will be the majority of the time. For cache I was planning on just the one 1 TB NVME but I could get a second and mirror if that would be better? NVMEs are fairly cheap at the moment. Was planning to start with 64GB DDR4 to begin with (I’m expecting I might need a fair amount for game servers), and I decided against going down the ECC rabbit hole.

I’m looking for a mATX case. Unfortunately I’m limited by the depth of my utility cupboard so it can’t be any more than 300mm wide. Ideally I’d like something capacity for 8 hot swap bays (though it isn’t vital that they’re hotswap). Looking at something like this In-Win IW-MS08. I’ll be limited by PSU, not sure how big of an issue that is? Any recommendations? Just needs to be mATX, space for 8 drives and compact.

Hi All, I’m in the process of designing my new (first) homelab and have some questions on storage. To begin with, I’m planning on 4 HDDs approx 6-8TB each, plus a 1TB NVME. From what I understand, I can setup one of those HDDs as the parity drive and use the 1TB NVME as the cache? Is this a good setup to get started? I plan to eventually expand to 8 drives where I’ll likely the have 2 parity drives. I gather Unraid is quite flexible in the size of the drives you can add as long as the parity drives remain the largest? I’m planning to host some game servers, how should I set Unraid up? Ideally I want to utilise the speed of an SSD, so can I add one and tell Unraid to use that specifically for this task? Or will the cache drive handle the speedy bits? Do a need another SSD for this? I also need to decide if I want to go ZFS or XFS, I need to do more research here. Power efficiency is important and I think Unraid will power down drives that aren’t in use? I also need to decide on SAS or SATA, does it make much difference? Can I use the two together? Finally I’ll need a controller when I go past 4 drives. Is there any benefit to using a controller from the start or will a motherboard handle it fine until you run out of slots? Any other advice here would be appreciated. I’ve only ever used RAID1 before. Thanks

Hi everyone! I'm new to Unraid and well.. new to home servers in general actually. I've been building my own gaming PCs for the past 20 years and I have a small synology NAS but recently I've decided I want to build a homelab and one of my friends suggested I take a look at Unraid. I'm currently still in the planning phase so expect to see a few posts from me. My goals are: NAS 4-8 bays (replace and expand my synology NAS) 2-3 game servers for up to 10 players (Minecraft, Rust, Valheim, DayZ, 7 Days to Die etc.) Most likely scenario is that it’ll be 1 server at a time with 3-4 players but I don’t want to set the bar too low. Music streaming (for myself and partner) Video streaming (for myself and partner at our home) Very rare, I literally just have a couple of videos we occasionally watch. It’ll never be more than 1 stream Home automation (home assistant) MUST be efficient. The only real taxing thing I think is going to be the gaming servers so I've been looking at an intel i5-12400 CPU for the 6 cores and 12 threads which should hopefully be plenty for my needs? It also has Quicksync which I'm told is really good for video. As for motherboard, potentially looking at an ASUS TUF B760M-PLUS Micro ATX. I'm less decided on this but it needs to be a Micro ATX and this one seems fairly decent for the price. I think I should be able to do just about everything I want through Unraid with containers? I'd like to focus on consumer parts and power efficiency is a absolute MUST. Just looking for some general advice on CPU and Mobo at this stage. Is this a good option? What's the next step up or down? Anything I should look out for? Thanks everyone! 😁