December 20, 20187 yr Looking for recommendations on a first build. Migrating from a mac mini running ESXI at the moment. Currently running just small development VM's but looking to expand to adding home automation and 1 VM for lite gaming with GPU passthrough. Another one is a Cisco VIRL server that is ram intensive. Would also like the option to expand into using home streaming via Plex or Kodi. Couple questions that I am seeing from other builds revolves around the storage. I am seeing other using drives in order of a cache drive, pariarty and data drive. What is the importance of this? I was hoping to use the m.2 for the gaming VM, the SSD for the cache drive and the rest for data. Is this overkill for such a simple setup? What is your budget? Even if you don't have a strict budget set out, at least give us an idea if you are pinching pennies or splurging on your build. 1000.00 - 1200.00 How many drives do you want your server to be able to support and how much capacity do you need? 4 drives + m.2 + 2 SSD Is expandability important to you? If so, what's your long term goal? Somewhere around 5+ years Are you interested in running any unRAID Add Ons (see here)? If so, which ones? Be specific. Not at the moment What do you plan to run for hard drives? m.2 list in parts list. Kingston 120GB SSD, 4 1 TB HDD Do you have any spare parts laying around that you would like to apply towards your build? This includes drives. The 120GB SSD, and 4 1TB HDD PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LcFnJ8 CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($164.99 @ Amazon) -- https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-2600 CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - MasterLiquid Lite 120 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($49.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($128.89 @ OutletPC) -- https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING-rev-10#kf Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($209.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($77.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB GAMING X 4G Video Card ($159.99 @ Newegg) -- https://www.msi.com//Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-GAMING-X-4G.html Case: Anidees - AI7 (Windowed) ATX Desktop Case ($94.90 @ Amazon) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.89 @ OutletPC) Total: $956.53
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