dynomite567 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) Hello everyone! Recently I have been gaining interest into Unraid recently, and since my now 4 year old gaming pc has spent most of it's time collecting dust and being idle most of the time, I wanted to make it into an Unraid server. Here are the current specs on it now: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/dynomite567/saved/yr24Mp I want to be able to use the server in the following ways: Storing some data (Probably not a lot) Hosting a media server (Plex, Jellyfish, etc., want transcoding) Hosting docker containers, a LOT of docker containers (I end up experimenting with a bunch of different services time to time, and I tend to start up and tear down containers a lot of the time) A primary Windows VM that can both be used for gaming and for work related things (GPU Passthrough). Will be running most of the time, but may shut it off if I need to. Multiple VMs to test out different Linux OS's or run other publicly available images. These would only be running if I want to use them, and will be shut off when I am done. I am thinking of using the SSD as a cache drive and mainly using two HDDs to store the files, with one HDD being a parity drive. Most of the hardware right now I have is existing hardware I have for a while (again, I am re-using a gaming station that mostly sits dormant in the back of my room). I am planning on upgrading the hard drives to implement RAID 1 Storage and to have more storage space (Probably about 3-4TB) to work with when making VMs or storing data I want to make sure this build would work well with the use cases I described above. Any and all feedback is appreciated and if I need to clarify some things in my use cases, please let me know and I'll try to provide more detail if I can. Thanks in advance. Edit: Whoops, it seems like I made a mistake when I was explaining my storage plan above (Saying I was going to use my 250GB SSD as Parity :/). I corrected this so that I don't sound like an absolute fool in my storage explanation. Edited April 27, 2021 by dynomite567 Quote Link to comment
Phetheron Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Pretty much thinking the same with my older gaming PC. Did you ever get this setup? Quote Link to comment
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