NAS w/ VMs based on ASRock X570M Pro4 & Ryzen 3700X: Good enough?

[Digiwolf]

Hi UnRaid Community –

 

I'm about to take the plunge for my first UnRaid build for a NAS w/ a handful of VMs, e.g. Home Assistant, NVR (Kerberos maybe?), DuckDNS, Plex.

 

Trying to keep cost and noise as low as possible, balancing performance. Here's the list I had in mind:

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo: ASRock X570 Pro4

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB)

SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB

HDDs: Repurpose existing HDDs from WD Book, etc.

Case: Fractal Design Define 7 XL (chosen for storage expansion in mind)

NIC: Asus XG-C100C (for 10gb Ethernet)

PSU: Corsair RM (2019) 650 W

 

What are your thoughts about such a system? Any major red flags?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[tryptophanatic_turkey]

Hi, how did the hardware work out for you?

 

I just purchased the same mobo/cpu combo, so have a vested interest in this.

 

Thanks.

[Digiwolf]

Hi @tryptophanatic_turkey – In the absence of any responses, I'm still researching. How has it panned out for you? 

[tryptophanatic_turkey]

Hey Digiwolf,

 

I had to wait a bit until I was able to test it out, but I've got Unraid running on the above hardware without any hassle (apart from the odd USB creation process). The issue I'm having now isn't hardware, but the realization that there might not be any security patching occurring, which is one of the reasons I'm leaving my old Synology NAS. Still working on getting a better answer for this though....hopefully I'm wrong cause this looks like a really great product.