Hi,  starting using unraid. Homessasistant in vm, win10 in vm for knx and other minor stuff, and plex.(no gaming, 2pc already for that) At my age I have tons of hardware lying around. 

5960x 8core with x99mb and 32gb ram

Asrock  server mb wit 2e2670v2 8core and 98gig ram

Good old x5670mb with 12 gb ram, underclocked 

Lots of SAS cards and old 2 to 4tb HDD and some m.2 and ssd for cache.

Which mb will be best? I fear power consumption of my 5960x

 

17 hours ago, Klausn80 said:

Hi,  starting using unraid. Homessasistant in vm, win10 in vm for knx and other minor stuff, and plex.

Welcome!

 

Will you direct-play or transcode in Plex?

If transcoding is required then you'd need to buy modern parts.

 

Do you have very expensive electricity?

If yes, then it might actually be more cost effective in the long run to buy brand new, more power efficient hardware (PC components and large capacity HDDs).

In addition if you get an ATX motherboard with 8 SATA ports it will allow you to only use the motherboard's SATA ports - no need for power wasting SAS cards.

It would also increase your system's overall reliability from the perspective of possible failure points.

 

If you're set on re-using your existing hardware then I'd say the i7-5960X is probably your best (least worst) option.

Hi, thanks for the input. i had that MB and CPU for the 40pci lanes and 10SATA + 2 M2. didn't think about the power consumption of SAS card. 

dont need much transcoding. 

realizing the cpu is 10 years old, will rethink that.