wayner Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 I am looking to build a new server to replace my 5 year old unRAID server. I am starting to see hard drive failures in my older system and want to change this system to be my backup. My unRAID system primarily acts as a media server running Docker versions of SageTV, Plex (currently infrequently), a file server, and runs dockers such as Unifi Controller, piHole, OpenVPN server, Teslamate, and a few others. I have about 11TB of files and that is now growing fairly slowly as I don't store as much media locally due to streaming. I will run an Ubuntu VM on a regular basis and likely a Win 10/11 VM. I may occasionally want to play around with other VMs. For a new system I am looking at using an Asus B560-Plus mobo and an i5-11400 CPU. I will use at least one M.2 NVME drive as a cache. I don't think I will ever need more than 4 SATA hard drives, I will be using an 8TB parity and then use an 8TB and a spare 4TB for now. I will likely install 32TB of RAM initially. Any advice on this mobo/CPU combination? Is it worth paying up a bit to upgrade the CPU to an i5-11600? I want to use an 11th Gen to have the ability to use a Gen4 NVME drive. Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Should work - with 6.10 RC2 Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 I am not sure if I can go with 6.10 RC2 as I need the DVB plugin so that I can use TV capture devices and firewire, and I am not sure if this is available for 6.10 yet or just 6.9 Quote Link to comment
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