Bony Posted July 18, 2018 Posted July 18, 2018 I am looking to build 2u or 3u Rack Unraid Server with following in mind 1. Allow my r610 ESXi server to access the storage as an NFS mount when needed. (eg: downloading files, movies, wtc on to the unraid build directly) 2. Have roughly around 20 TB or more to future proof storage needs (Plex / Storing PSD's / Live TV dvr files, etc.) Above is the summary but let me expand. So originally i was thinking to run the Plex server as a VM on my r610 and use the Unraid build for strictly storing movies, etc. As i have been browsing this forum i see lot of folks running plex locally on the unraid as a VM. Which one is recommended given my scenario? I'm really struggling with this since if you would recommend hosting the plex within unraid then i need to beef up my build (as i would like to have 4k 10bit support for the future) and at that point i would obviously build the server in that manner. R610 Specs: - 64GB DDR3 ECC RAM - Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33GHz (x2) - Storage 2 SSD's just for storing VM's so as you can tell R610 is strictly just an ESXi server with no large storage in mind. I Plan on installing 10Gbe controllers on the R610 and the Unraid server. Unraid build in mind so far (if plex needs to be ran locally) - E3-1245 V6 (4K 10-bit HEVC support) - a Super micro or Asus server motherboard - 16 bay case -any suggessions? (maybe even larger) - drives - thinking use 8TB Easystore or similar. - 1-2 SSD's for caching/plex and the rest is still up in the air depending on your suggestions. so onto suggesttions - to plex locally on unraid or not? - based on that what motherboard/case/cpu would you reccomend? Thanks for all your help everyone. Love how much everyone contributes here.
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