December 30, 20178 yr Hi all, After watching numerous youtube videos on unraid... i have decided to make my next home office/gaming rig an unraid box, instead of building at lease 5 machines. My needs: 2 gaming vms (one with gpu passthrough to a 55inch 4k tv, the other to 1080p monitor) 1 vm that will be used as a monitor station for trading 1 vm or docker for plex 1 windows vm that i can use as a test bench for new software that i want to deploy at customers 1 windows vm that my dad can use when he is down stairs in my office.. he has trouble walking about... so i wanted a vm that i can give him just to browse the web, email, youtube etc to a 1080p monitor 1 vm for my linux testing environment.. i looked at linustechtip last crazy unraid box and i was like hrm.. that make sense.. get a 16 core/32 threads intel HEDT processor with atleast 64gb ram.. 6 8tb drives and 2 nvme 1tb m.2 ssd for the cache drive. after looking at what this guy did in his office : i believe i can accomplish my goal. Any pointers before i start buying parts ?
December 30, 20178 yr I clicked on this post out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised to see my post had given you some ideas! Will both the gaming VMs ever be used at the same time? If not, you could save on a video card and get one with two HDMI connectors or get a HDMI splitter and use the same VM to power both screens For the trading VM, I'm assuming this won't need more than 1 core and a Graphics card for output. A Gt710/GT730 would work well and play nicely with unRAID For Plex, use a docker rather than a VM. It's a much better use of resources - Plex can then access your full server power (if you want it to) i.e. all cores, rather than just the ones you've assigned to the VM. The plex docker also has a small footprint rather than having to install a full OS just to run Plex. This is best practice with docker apps i.e. no need to tie up resources Test VMs - you could access this via RDP if you don't want to allocate a VGA etc to it For your Dad it is easy to put a VM in another room - just use a long HDMI cable and a powered USB cable (think you need if running over 5m). There are some good posts on this forum A CPU with lots of cores is what you need. There are problems with the latest AMD chips you should research before you go that route, otherwise a good Xeon chip would suit all the VMs you want to run.
December 30, 20178 yr Author Thanks for the reply.. all the monitors will be in my office... so all the hdmi cables will be under 15m... going on pcpartpicker to choose some parts so i can look at a working budget. I am hoping they resolve the threadripper issues soon or i will have to go the intel x299 route.
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