October 21, 20232 yr Hi all, I'm getting a new mobo soon for one of my unraid servers wich runs most of my networking stuff (Pihole, Twingate, Unifi and Home Assistant). My mediaserver is another machine wich facilitates dockers such as Plexx and the rr suite. The new mobo im getting for my networking unraid server has 8x 2,5Gbe intel nics on it and i was wondering if i could just install unraid with the previously mentioned "network" dockers on it and use the unused 7x 2,5Gbe nics as common network ports. If so i could replace my 8 port switch next to my fiber modem/router and use only 1 device as unraid server and network switch. I'm not planning to use PFsense on the networking Unraid server or anything as a router/firewall, my Fritzbox modem/router/firewall does a great job at that. This is all with some power saving in mind, at the moment my current switch uses about 10w and my network unraid server about 25w. If i can consolidate the 2 devices in 1 it would use about 10-13w (Intel N6005). Any help would be appreciated. Kind regards, Marty
October 21, 20232 yr Community Expert 57 minutes ago, Martyzzz said: The new mobo im getting for my networking unraid server has 8x 2,5Gbe intel nics What is this for a MoBo? sounds interesting...
October 25, 20232 yr Author On 10/21/2023 at 7:48 AM, MAM59 said: What is this for a MoBo? sounds interesting... https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005005997288227.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.7a766d76tkYAdv&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld
October 25, 20232 yr Author On 10/21/2023 at 6:50 AM, Martyzzz said: Hi all, I'm getting a new mobo soon for one of my unraid servers wich runs most of my networking stuff (Pihole, Twingate, Unifi and Home Assistant). My mediaserver is another machine wich facilitates dockers such as Plexx and the rr suite. The new mobo im getting for my networking unraid server has 8x 2,5Gbe intel nics on it and i was wondering if i could just install unraid with the previously mentioned "network" dockers on it and use the unused 7x 2,5Gbe nics as common network ports. If so i could replace my 8 port switch next to my fiber modem/router and use only 1 device as unraid server and network switch. I'm not planning to use PFsense on the networking Unraid server or anything as a router/firewall, my Fritzbox modem/router/firewall does a great job at that. This is all with some power saving in mind, at the moment my current switch uses about 10w and my network unraid server about 25w. If i can consolidate the 2 devices in 1 it would use about 10-13w (Intel N6005). Any help would be appreciated. Kind regards, Marty Bumb, nobody?
October 25, 20232 yr Community Expert 13 minutes ago, Martyzzz said: Bumb, nobody? I guess there wont be many answers. I have some ideas what might work, but I cannot proove or test them. So I keep them for myself in case they do not work.
October 25, 20232 yr These devices are sold as firewalls. They are designed to run something like OPNSense or PFSense and be the entry point of a network that is then distributed via the ample amounts of nics. I would under no circumstances run anything valuable on it such as your own personal data nor would I attempt to run EVERYTHING just because it could. You will end up with a device that doesnt do anything well. The CPU is not something that would be classed as server quality. To be fair you'd be replacing a switch with essentially another router which you already have in fritz. There'd be next to no support for transcoding or a task load heavier than directing traffic The device is good if you needed to replace fritz just not a media server.
November 2, 20232 yr Author On 10/25/2023 at 3:04 PM, keywal said: These devices are sold as firewalls. They are designed to run something like OPNSense or PFSense and be the entry point of a network that is then distributed via the ample amounts of nics. I would under no circumstances run anything valuable on it such as your own personal data nor would I attempt to run EVERYTHING just because it could. You will end up with a device that doesnt do anything well. The CPU is not something that would be classed as server quality. To be fair you'd be replacing a switch with essentially another router which you already have in fritz. There'd be next to no support for transcoding or a task load heavier than directing traffic The device is good if you needed to replace fritz just not a media server. Hi Keywall, thanks for the reply I'm not replacing my I5-12500 (wich runs everything like netwerk dockers and media) server with 1 device but actually im replacing it with 2 devices. I want the 8 port server/router running Pihole, Twingate, Unifi and Home Assistant wich is stuff that need to be always on and another server with a more power eficient cpu running my media dockers such as plex, radarr and sonarr on unraid. My private stuff like photos and videos is on a 2 bay double 2TB SSD (raid0) NAS wich only draws 4wats and gets backed up to the unraid server. I was just hoping that i could use the 8 port server/router to replace my 8 port 2,5Gbe switch as that device also uses 7 watts and my guess is that the 8 port server/router will only use 10 watts. i can only make the switch if i can utilize all the network ports of the device.
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