January 25, 20224 yr Going to be upgrading my home server. I have a budget arround 1-2k and did a quick build here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4Lv2Fg a plan to do a 4u rack mounted cabinet. It will mostly be used as a plex server, docker containers (node-red, home assistant etc.) and a web server. Not sure if the specs are good enough though.
January 25, 20224 yr For comparison - my server is primarily a media server (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr etc.), also running Home Assistant in docker, Nvidia Quadro P400 passed through to Plex for hardware decode. 24 drives = 22 x 4TB + 2 x 6TB parity + 2 x 1TB SSD cache (BTRFS RAID1). Xeon E5-2650v3 (10-core/20-thread) 2.3GHz CPU 2 x 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM This was built from spare components I had lying around (apart from new drives) and it barely breaks a sweat handling the above. Others will no doubt have other comparisons but compared to mine I think that spec you have linked to should be fine.
January 26, 20224 yr On 1/25/2022 at 5:06 AM, jbcbros said: It will mostly be used as a plex server, docker containers (node-red, home assistant etc.) and a web server. Honestly, without knowing the load that each of these applications will be used, it is impossible to say. Will the plex server be accessed by you alone on Friday nights? Or will 50 of your friends be watching all day/night? What exactly is your web server serving? Photos for your family to occasionally view, or an active home business with a shopping portal? You can see in my siggy below, I'm running a modest 1st gen Ryzen. There are usually 20 Dockers running. But my usage is very light - Plex only has a few occasional users, Nextcloud is basically an iPhone photo backup, etc. My system is more than powerful enough to handle these tasks with nary a hiccup.
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