Hello,
I am excited to finally be building an Unraid server. I have built many PCs before, both for families and friends and professionally. The planned uses for the server are:
Plex server in a Docker (Supporting up to 2 simultaneous clients, and recording 2-4 simultaneous OTA TV channels via Plex DVR or HdHomerun DVR)
Windows 10 VM for occasional use (will not play games, just for office software, web browsing, and working from home)
Ubuntu VM in the future
Future NVR (security camera) recording for cameras around my house
Other dockers for file synchonization and backup (such as resilio/bittorrent sync)
Occasional ripping and transcoding using Handbrake for DVD/Blu-Ray backup
I would like to build the system one of two ways, based on my budget:
Ryzen 5 1600 / Ryzen 7 1700, 16 GB DDR4, M.2 PCIe SSD as cache drive/appdata/vm storage
Used Xeon E5 V2 with 6-10 cores, 16 GB DDR3 ECC, SATA3 SSD as cache drive/appdata/vm storage
Given these two options, which would you choose and why? I like the more modern hardware that Ryzen and associated motherboards offer, including DDR4 and the faster M.2 PCIe SSD interface. On the other hand, I like the additional cores that some Xeon CPUs offer, and the reliability and cost-effectiveness of using used DDR3 ECC RAM on a Xeon platform.
Thanks for your advice!