February 4, 20179 yr I am looking to build a new server as my last NAS has bit the dust and left me with blank hard drives now. I need the system to be able to run a couple dockers (Plex, Sonarr, etc) basic media sharing. I will only need be able to stream to 5-6 clients at a time, only transcoding 1 steam. I need it to run Windows 10 for a gaming, Nothing hard core. World of Warcraft, and the like I may have the occasional stream as well. My thought was to use the SSD as a cache drive, a place to store the Plex database, and use it for the Windows 10 VM I have some hardware picked out, but want to verify that everything is compatible and will work correctly before ordering. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 AORUS Processor: Intel i7 7700K CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Memory: 32 gb of Corsair Vengeance LPX Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming Power Supply: EVGA Supernova G2 650W HBA add in card: LSI 9211-8I or IBM m1015 Case: NZXT H440 SSD: Crucial MX300 1TB SATA 2.5 5-6 Seagate NAS rated hard drives. UPS: Cyberpower 1500VA/900Watt LX1500GU Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. JackD
February 4, 20179 yr Not sure if bits will all work together - putting all your parts into pcpartpicker.com is a good way to check that. But, the motherboard supports VT-D which you'll need for the VMs and the CPU has more than enough power to do what you need. It's only got 4 cores though, which might impact performance if you want to run more than one VM in the future. If you haven't already bought the SSD, I personally would spend my cash a bit differently: (i) buy 2x500GB and have a cache pool for redundancy so you don't lose any files if one drive goes (ii) buy 2x250GB SSDs for a cache pool and 1x500GB for the VM (or even smaller and keep files/games on array and move over when need - there's a youtube video on this with unRAID). That way your VM has a dedicated SSD so nothing happening with plex etc will impact performance I have a 2x250GB cache and a 1x500GB (wish I'd bought smaller as I only use 100GB to run 2x50GB VMs, although I'm about to build a 3rd) which is enough to cover the amount of new files I write on a normal day (I don't write torrents etc to my cache) and the cache only shares I need. You might want to check if you need a 2nd cheap videocard for unraid to use - but there are ways to pass through the primary GPU to a VM and use unRAID headless. I've done this by stubbing my GPUs. Read the bit about stubbing and assigning in this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=51874.msg497875#msg497875
February 4, 20179 yr Author Thank you giving some advice on the cache drives and have rearranged my proposed build to include 2 SSD drives for cache/Plex , and 1 separate SSD for my VM. As far as adding other VM's there may be one more but that will not be a real on system resources other than memory. I added everything to the build and the only issues that it came up with were that I need at least 2 more SATA connectors as the motherboard only supports 6. But in the process I did discover that the power supply while large enough doesn't come with enough SATA power cables so I will look into alternatives to that issue. As far as I was able to tell, I should be able to use the iGPU for unRAID, and then the Geforce 1060 for the raid,at least I thought I had read that. Any other suggestions that anyone has would be greatly appreciated, as I need to get a NAS back in place very soon.
February 4, 20179 yr Word of warning - it's unlikely you'll be able to control the rgbs from within a VM as they can't be assigned as a device (similarly with all the other motherboard bells and whistles like fan control). I've got the same problem with my mobo. If you really want LEDs, you'll have to buy a hue+ or something similar
February 4, 20179 yr Author I wasn't sure if I could use the software control on the lighting or not. Thanks for answering that for me. I am hopeful that I can still do some of the basic lighting etc as it can be setup in the bios.
February 5, 20179 yr I wasn't sure if I could use the software control on the lighting or not. Thanks for answering that for me. I am hopeful that I can still do some of the basic lighting etc as it can be setup in the bios. yes, you can do that. I have mine cycling through colours and I bought a cheap Deepcool RGB350 which I'm very happy with for some more lighting.
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