Best practice - Compute and Storage Server Connection?

[unr41dus3r]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm considering getting a dedicated Intel NUC for my computing needs and using my existing Unraid server for storage (e.g., Docker, VMs). However, I'm not sure what the best way is to connect the two.

 

I plan to store the Appdata folder on the Intel NUC to avoid network overhead, but for documents and media files for the media server, I would distribute them through the storage server.

 

I'm planning to use Unraid on the Intel NUC and I'm considering connecting the necessary user shares via NFS. However, I'm unsure whether this is the best way or if it would be better to use SMB between the two Unraid servers.

 

I recently learned that SMB supports "Server Side Copy" but I'm not sure if this feature is supported for standard communication between two Unraid servers. Any advice on the best approach would be appreciated. Thanks!