October 14, 20241 yr I'm thinking that It's been really nice using my main computer as a NAS, and VM Host, while also passing through the hardware, but I'm actually having lots of issues, that's been stacking up on me over time, I bought a better computer, but I have still not used all of it since I bought it 3 years ago, and As of a couple days ago, I actually bought a bigger version of the same chassi, so I'm thinking impulsively, if it's a good idea to perhaps just build a second computer and use unRAID for that, but if I do that I'm probably not going to be using it as actively that I have been in recent years. Maybe it's better to just spend money on setting up a full Array, and a cache disk. ATM I only have one drive in the array. What kind of computer can I buy in order to use it as a nas and docker runner?
October 14, 20241 yr Community Expert This It does not take much to host some files. If you are doing things like hosting resource intense VMs, then your requirements will be based on what you are trying to accomplish.
October 14, 20241 yr Author 2 hours ago, Veah said: This It does not take much to host some files. If you are doing things like hosting resource intense VMs, then your requirements will be based on what you are trying to accomplish. That much I gather, I have a 7900X right now, but I don't think I'm using it to it's potential, and all I actually have is basically a couple vm's one for the bots, and this one, and then around 20 dockers, that handle media files basically.
October 14, 20241 yr Community Expert 7900x is alot of GPU for an unRAID for most people. I do all my lifting with just a 12600k igpu. Transcoding for small user count mostly. Maybe more what you are looking for in this section: https://forums.unraid.net/forum/9-hardware/
October 14, 20241 yr Author 45 minutes ago, Veah said: 7900x is alot of GPU for an unRAID for most people. I do all my lifting with just a 12600k igpu. Transcoding for small user count mostly. Maybe more what you are looking for in this section: https://forums.unraid.net/forum/9-hardware/ It's the CPU, I didn't have enough money for that GPU. I have the 6700 XT GPU. I have spent years upon years sitting and using virtual machines and when I learned about unRAID, I thought that I could save money by building a VM to use 24/7 for gaming, work, school, entertainment etc, and a NAS is really expensive, to make my computer into a NAS kind of made the whole thing with using unRAID a lot more interesting, and I can reboot and not have the bots die on me, and I can switch between multiple vms and always have access to my files without external devices, so unRAID have become my multi purpose operating system, but I'm thinking of building a new computer that can act as a media server, and then just install Linux and have a windows VM as I did before, the big problem here is that I can't switch and test out things on bare metal, I don't know if my computer is actually meeting up to it's full potential or not.
October 14, 20241 yr Community Expert Looks as you may be a AMD guy (as am I). The 5700G in my main server can handle the 25 Docker containers I run full time and not break a sweat. Has a 80TB array, 3 SSD pools, and running Plex, a full compliment of arrs, and a few other things as well. The 5700G can run on older motherboards (update BIOS first) and is selling on Amazon right now for under $160 USD. It also is a 65W CPU, always a plus. But... If you are running a media server, check that your server application of choice can transcode with a AMD iGPU. Otherwise you'll need to either pick up a discrete GPU with added cost and power usage. The nVidia T400 or older P400 Quadro cards do a great job (unless you are serving dozens of clients at once) for $150 or less. Single slot and 35W max. Otherwise I would usually recommend Intel for a media server only setup, as the Quicksync of Intel's iGPU is very well supported by most everyone and does a good job at transcoding. The 11700 is about par with the 5700G, and even the 10700 would likely fill your needs. (I'll let Intel guys chime in on this). But you will be paying close to the same or more once you tally up CPU/MB with Intel vs CPU/GPU/MB with AMD. But most any CPU *can* work. Only a few years ago, my main server ran a first generation Ryzen 1500X.
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