Hi All
First time poster, few month lurker!
I've read a lot of posts and watched a lot of YouTube videos from LinusTechTips and spaceinvaderone. Personal thank you to @SpaceInvaderOnefor all those great videos.
My old setup before selling off the parts or giving them to family/friends: 1 PC for gaming with; GTX 1060, i7 6700k, 16gb DDR4, 500gb nvme Raid. I ran a 2nd PC/server that was always on for Plex, i5 4460, 32gb DDR3, 5x 4tb HDDs. This was running on an xpenology OS. iMac for work related projects, I also run a pihole off a ras-pi and 2 other synology NAS for backups/work related stuff.
Moving to unraid i am hoping for a 1 box all solution, hence the budget (£1500), but I can push it further if needed.
Now, to the jammy center; I currently have £1500.00 to build a new unraid project, I have never used unraid before but all the videos, posts and reddit have motivated me to join you guys.
My budget doesn't include the follow as i either have the parts already or in the process of buying:
5x 4tb Seagate Ironwolf (using about 80% space)
2x 8tb (empty)
3x 250gb NVME
1x 500gb SSD SATA
800W PSU
AMD/ATI 570 GFX
RTX 2080 GFX (just bought)
A desk PC case custom built
AIO 360mm watercooler
My needs are
PLEX 24/7 for my 4 remote users, they are all running Android TV or Xbox one. Transcoding is what was used in the past builds. Should i go VM, docker or other?
Windows 10 gaming PC VM that will utilise my new monitor at 1440p around 120hz, the RTX 2080 will pass through from my understanding. I also plan to use the NVME drives to install Win10, steam, etc.
Hackintosh VM for work related stuff that will use the 570 ATI. 1 of the NVME.
Pihole
Maybe 1 VM for testing builds, etc.
I was thinking the following for my build 2920X Threadripper OR i9 9900k OR Ryzen 2700X. The budget will be for the CPU, Mobo, RAM and anything else I can think off. I would like to upgrade to 10GbE in the next few years, cards from ASUS are about £100.00. My worries are the gaming side and how many expansion slots I can use with the PCI lanes, I know it wont be a issue with Threadripper.
Any advice or help is welcomed, thanks.