jonhimes

For the A10 it is something i already have. Its from a HP desktop and had 12GB of ram and onboard gige. I was looking at using freenas but BSD doesn't support the onboard gige. Thats where I found unraid. As far as transcoding i think that about 95% of the time would be 1 stream and 4% 2 streams 1 for my kids and 1 myself. And the rare occasion there maybe a chance that my sister from another household may want to stream something and not know that we are using it. I also have an i7-920 but just found out it doesn't support virtualization. For the MB from the HP with the A10 it only has 1 pcie slot and ill hook up my 3ware 9650se and do IT mode, (Can I just have them set up as JBOD or does the card neet IT mode to reduce the cards overhead?) That is 8 sata plus 3 or 4 onboard sata. So with that sysem moved to my ATX Full tower I have like 10 bays(6x3.5 and 4x5.25 and 1 ext 3.5 i think i can use) in it. I will use my 850evo 512gb as cache drive(ill add another later) I have a 6TB WD red ill use as parity and i have some 4 and 3 TB drive ill use as the array. When i recover from my spending spree ill change out some of those 3s for more 6TB WD reds, If this can get me by for a year ill save for a proper server. I really need to build a VM and create a SQL server or mysql to access some books. I want that insulate that from the net. I have like 5TB of books that i was to have access to. Anythoughts on that? I could build a VM in my workstation build and access the 5TB from the unraid server but not sure if thats the best since the books are embeded in the sql db i think and if they are on the server it would chew up resources (ram) but like i said i do have 12GB on that system. Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk

So I will probably ho that route, maybe install w2012 and 10 as a vm on my main rig. As far as my dedicated server i was thinking that i may want to switch out the cpu mb ram to a xeon. I read some posts that you can pickup the E5-2670 or 80s for 50-100dollars and a mb for 200-300 and ram for under 100. If i go the route now that i use the A10, setup my unraid, store data on it and then in 6months i upgrade to xeon is it going to be a pain to switch that hardware? Also how fo you think that cpu would work for plex could i get 2+ streams or have the server pre encode all my videos to a more universal format? Would it get better to go dual cpu or will that not matter much as most of the stuff if not multi-threaded unless Im wrong. I know i have more cores to divy up across apps/vms. Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk

Below is a post of what i was originally thinking. It has my build in it. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/612499-os-on-new-build-for-gaming-nas-vms-editing-survilence/ If the performance is that low(<75%) on my 950pro Maybe i should look at at splitting my systems up. I have a A10-5700 based system with onboard gige that i can move it to a full tower with a cx750 power supply i have to give me the nas and plex server i want. Thanks again. Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk

Hi all, I have a new system that I am trying to build. It is an i7-6850 with Asus x99 deluxe 2 mb. I have a Samsung 950pro and a 850evo both are 512GB. And many HDD for my unraid. I want to have an unraid setup but I want to use the 850evo as a cache drive and the 950pro for only my windows 10 VM system drive. Is there a way to do this? if so how? Some type of passthrough? Thanks!