I've finally got to the point where my old venerable i5 (1st gen!) can't handle the strain when more than one person is connected to Plex so looking at options I keep coming back to Unraid thanks mainly to an awful lot of LTT videos!! I am ashamed of the current "server" as I should know better than to have let it get as bad as it has
So moving forward I have a couple of options... One involves a Dell R730XD, dual E5-2630 v3 with 64Gb ECC ram and 2 perc cards a H730 Mini and H810 with a dell enclosure attached (may not use the enclosure) and a number of 4TB SAS drives included in the server.
Can Unraid be used on this hardware and utilise the hardware/drives? The only caveat I can see is the XD doesn't seem to support the install of a GPU which is a shame as I'd like to start with the NAS and a few dockers then as knowledge grows stretch it out to something bigger.
So option two would be to gut it for parts.. CPU/RAM are obviously useful but can the drives be reused?
Third option would be to just start from scratch but... Would be a shame to not use some of the hardware.
Is it viable or should I just start planning to raid the piggy bank on black friday?