My current storage solution is a Windows 10 PC with a Pentium G4560 (7th gen), 1050 Ti, and dual 8tb WD Red in software RAID 1. I want to build a proper NAS to also host my Plex server and a simple Windows 11 VM for light emulation stuff (Dolphin). My planned build and setup:
CPU - Intel i5-14500 (UHD 770)
iGPU, 2p and, 4e cores for unRAID/Plex
4p and 4e cores for Windows 11 VM
GPU - Arc 380
Passthrough to Windows 11 VM
Will eventually move over to unRAID
Mobo - ASUS Pro WS W680-ACE
Supports ECC RAM, dual 2.5Gb NIC, 3 NVME slots, 8 SATA drives
RAM - 64GB of Kingston ECC RAM (validated for mobo)
SSDs
2TB Western Digital Black SN770 for VM, dockers, Plex metadata?
2 x 1TB Western Digital Red SN700 in RAID 1 for unRAID cache
HDDs - undecided, but likely 5 or 6 18TB drives with two parity drives as the array
PSU - Corsair RM750x Shift
Case - Fractal Design Define 7
Does this setup look good enough to have roughly 50TB+ of storage, good unRAID and Plex performance, decent Windows VM performance for light emulation gaming and occasional internet browser streaming, and reliability?
The SSD setup is what I'm most unsure about. I've read a lot of different approaches for where to put a VM, appdata, dockers, cache, Plex metadata. I had even thought about tossing in a separate SATA SSD for the Plex metadata to isolate the VM? Would appreciate any suggestions or advise as to the SSD setup.