10 hours ago, Orbi said:

4GB - Some basic scripts, no VM's, no Docker. My loyal companion for 10 years straight now.

 

Looking at some of the above configs, feels like some guys are running data center level hardware 😄

A lot of users I have found here on the forum have some form of a media center or photo backup add-ons for there nas.
There quite a few video going around lately regarding the "ars" running sonar radar etc for theses media libraries.

Unraid's ok for a straight nas as that is their baseline. I have found that unraids community excels in terms of its docker implementations. Docker requires these extra resources.

With some hardware moving out of data centers on the cheap its better to buy that hardware for the same price then the latest amd/intel systems... get better cores comment and vfio out of them. Then it's a slippery slope into that with getting racks.

Recently A local telecom location moved and resold some nice things. we got some racks out of it. at that points its hard not to run these datacenters.

amd epic Mulan chips preferred the amd epic rome $500 for motherboard ram and processor is not a bad start line. Assuming you're ok with the power costs. As Newer hardware can sometimes be more efficient.

at that level your runngin ram in 8 channel lanes so its easy to see the ram be a min of 32 GB...
example:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805290809891.html

 

Hard drives can be expensive...

ATM for baseline Unraid no docker no vms for me 4 cores 8 gb of ram. is a min for unraid. Its fun and interesting to see what other have and are using...

32gb

48GB, most I can get right now with only 1 sodimm stick

128GB 💪

64gb

16, fixed ammount on the Lincstation N1

256GB along with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 cpus.

Edited June 2, 20251 yr by m411b

10 hours ago, m411b said:

256GB along with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 cpus.

And how much of that is in use?

I do have 64GB and for home media server it is a overkill, even when I have 10 plex users.

1 hour ago, Joloxx9 said:

And how much of that is in use?

I do have 64GB and for home media server it is a overkill, even when I have 10 plex users.

70GB(256) and 48(80) cores while idle

Not everyone just runs a media server. But since you mentioned it. My Plex server has over 3500 movies, 120 shows(All with complete seasons), 82 users and uses more than 17TB of disk space.

Edited June 3, 20251 yr by m411b

9 minutes ago, m411b said:

70GB(256) and 48(80) cores while idle

Not everyone just runs a media server. But since you mentioned it. My Plex server has over 3500 movies, 120 shows(All with complete seasons), 82 users and uses more than 17TB of disk space.

I am not saying that everyone use it for media server, IMO just for media server even 64GB is a overkill.

I guess you have some other stuff running in the background as 70GB of RAM for applications is quite a bit.

Corsair 64GB (2x32GB) Vengeance 6000MHz DDR5 RAM

I run Plex (rarely used lately since i have stremio), Home Assistant, Immich photo server, Ollama/OpenClaw.

I'm thinking of pulling some of the RAM from a few servers and reselling it to buy a MacLarren.

16GB DDR5 4800MHz. Luckily I bought it right before prices hockey sticked.

32 GB because I had an opportunity to upgrade a year ago.

I paid 45 euros for 2*16GB. The same package now would cost me 300 something Euros at my local hardware store...

32 GB DDR4 Single-bit ECC

512GB for ram

32 gb. I want to go to 64, but I'll have to sell one of my cars first

Main system 128GB, backup 16GB. Used Supermicro servers, bought before things went crazy for pricing.

64GB. Happy that I did that way long before the insane price hikes

64GB DDR4 Unbuffered ECC 3200mhz ram (Kingston 32GB KSM32ED8/32HC x2). I wanted ECC ram that would work with non-server parts (Ryzen AM4). I purchased them at exactly the right time, because with the ram blow outs they're over double the price per stick than what I paid for them, currently.

Edited April 11Apr 11 by Lebowski89

8GB.
I upgraded from Synology running 2GB. My money went to hard drives and server. Until I show myself that I will get close to saturating the RAM with dockers, I'll increase RAM then. Might get closer than I think with my self-hosting has increased rapidly in last 2 years.

48gb ddr5 so-dimm

128 GiB DDR5 Single-bit ECC

On 4/11/2026 at 1:05 PM, Lebowski89 said:

64GB DDR4 Unbuffered ECC 3200mhz ram (Kingston 32GB KSM32ED8/32HC x2). I wanted ECC ram that would work with non-server parts (Ryzen AM4). I purchased them at exactly the right time, because with the ram blow outs they're over double the price per stick than what I paid for them, currently.

64 GB DDR5 fastest that I could find

Between both servers, roughly $96,000 USD worth.