Hardware Help for Specific Use Cases

Hello Unraid Community,

I built an Unraid Server and had been doing alright so far, but now I'm having issues with my security cameras and it has me questioning my hardware, specifications listed below.

My security cameras are connected through a NVR which is linked to Blue Iris running as a system service on a Windows 2025 Server VM. I have six cameras total, four running 7 FPS (4K cameras) and two at 15 FPS (2K cameras). OpenAI is hosted on the VM for AI Detection for motion alerts. I am using sub-streams, direct-to-disk, and no hardware decoding.

The three primary things running on the Unraid Server at all times are Home Assistant, the BlueIris Windows VM, and Immich for automatic phone backups.

Recently, I've been trying to dial in the sensitivity of the motion detection in Blue Iris, however, the Windows VM/Blue Iris is running unbearably slow.

It is very rare that my processor is maxed out, but it does occur occasionally. Unraid doesn't seem to bog down, but interfacing with the VM definitely does.

My questions are:

1. Is this system sufficient?

   1. Any upgrades I could do or setting tweaks?

   2. Windows Server 2025 or BlueIris setting tweaks?

2. Would it be better to have two separate servers, one for security cameras and one for my other Unraid stuff

3. Do I need to build a new system?

Let me know if there is other additional information I can provide.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this and provide any insight you may have. Thank you in advance!

Server Specifications:

Unraid server Starter, version 7.3.2

Kernel = Linux 6.18.38-Unraid x86_64

Dell OptiPlex 7050 SFF (BIOS Version: 1.27.0) Mfg Date: 09/20/2017

Motherboard-

Dell Inc. 0NW6H5, Version: A00

HVM= Enabled

IOMMU= Enabled

Cache-
L1 Cache = 256 KiiB (max. capacity 256 KiiB)

L2 Cache = 1 MiiB (max. capacity 1 MiiB)

L3 Cache = 8 MiiB (max. capacity 8 MiiB)

Memory- (48GB DDR4)

Speed = 2133MHz

DIMM 1 = 8192 MB

DIMM1: 80AD000080AD HMA81GU6DJR8N-VK, 8 GiiB DDR4 @ 2133 MT/s

DIMM 2 = 8192 MB

DIMM2: 80AD000080AD HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK, 8 GiiB DDR4 @ 2133 MT/s

DIMM 3 = 16384 MB

DIMM3: 859B0000802C BLS16G4D240FSC.16FBD, 16 GiiB DDR4 @ 2133 MT/s

DIMM 4 = 16384 MB

DIMM4: 859B0000802C BLS16G4D240FSC.16FBD, 16 GiiB DDR4 @ 2133 MT/s

Processor-

Intel i7 6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Temp = 43 C

Graphics Card-

VisionTek HD 7750

2048 MB

GPU Clock: 800MHz

Memory Clock: 1125 MHz

Memory Type: GDDR5

Storage-

Cache = Intel 512GB M.2 2280, PCIe Gen3 x 4 NVMe (INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8H )

FS = btrfs

Boot (Flash) = SanDisk_SanDisk_3.2_Gen1 - 129 GB

FS = vfat

Array Devices-

Terramaster D4-320 connected via USB C (through USB C PCIe Card, Shared 10Gbps)

Disk 1 = Western Digital Red Plus 4TB 3.5" NAS HDD, Model # WD40EFPX

Parity = Western Digital Red Plus 4TB 3.5" NAS HDD, Model # WD40EFPX

Dockers:

Media- (not always running)

1. Arr's =

   1. radarr,

   2. sonarr,

   3. lidarr

2. sabnzbd

3. Jellyfin

Utilities-

fail2ban

Services-

1. immich server (autostart)

2. mealiev1 (autostart)

3. paperless-ngx (autostart)

Support Dockers-

1. Apache-Tika-Server (autostart)

2. gotenberg (autostart)

3. immich_machine_learning

4. immich_postgres

5. immigh_redis

6. postgresql18 (autostart)

7. Redis (autostart)

8. Unraid-Cloudflared-Tunnel (autostart)

9. HomeAssistant_inabox (autostart)

10. binhex-official-gluetun

Plugins:

1. FolderView Plus

2. Appdata Backup

3. CA Auto Update Applications

4. CA Mover Tuning

5. Community Applications

6. Compose Manager

7. Dynamix Active Streams

8. Dynamix System Information

9. Fix Common Problems

10. GPU Statistics

11. Tailscale

12. Tmux Terminal Manager

13. Unassigned Devices

14. Unassigned Devices Plus

15. User Scripts

VMS:

Windows Server 2025

• vCPUs: 6 cores

• Memory-

  • Initial = 8GB, Max = 22 GB

• Machine= Q35-10.2

• BIOS= OVMF TPM

• Hyper-V= Yes

Home Assistant

• vCPUs: 2 cores

• Memory-

  • Initial = 2GB, Max = 2 GB

• Machine= Q35-9.2

• BIOS = OVMF