TangoEchoAlpha Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Hi all - New user here, looking to build my first ever NAS and decided that Unraid is the best option versus the others. At the moment I am trying to decide whether to build my Unraid box around a Ryzen 3400G APU or a Pentium G5600? I plan on using Unraid in a home environment where it's going to be used for file storage for the family and storing footage directly from IP CCTV cameras. I expect it will also be used to serve movies etc on Plex and run Dockers - but I am not planning on running any VMs and gaming inside the VMs - so pass through is not an issue. Thanks 🙂 Quote Link to comment
noahbershatsky Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Did this ever happen? I’m doing the same thing. Quote Link to comment
TangoEchoAlpha Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 9 hours ago, noahbershatsky said: Did this ever happen? I’m doing the same thing. I went with a 2400G in the end, on a MSI X470 Gaming Carbon motherboard. I did consider a B450 motherboard, but decided to go X470 and get the extra SATA ports. Quote Link to comment
noahbershatsky Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Everything works ok then? Quote Link to comment
TangoEchoAlpha Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 16 hours ago, noahbershatsky said: Everything works ok then? I haven't seen any evidence of it not! I've had it running for sometime now, seems completely stable. I've got five drives (one an external USB drive) plus a parity and it works well for what I use it for. I'm also making use of several dockers, such as Krusader, Shinobi, Pi-Hole, Youtube Downloader and Plex. I expect streaming from Plex to many clients would be an issue, but for my wife and I - it's fine. Quote Link to comment
darkside40 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Have you maybe ever measured the powerconsumption of your system? Quote Link to comment
noahbershatsky Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 According to the battery / UPS settings on my dashboard - it reads 90 Watts with 8 hard drives and 1 SSD all working and writing parity. I don't know if that's good or bad, but that's what it says. Quote Link to comment
TangoEchoAlpha Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Just to follow this up in case anyone finds the thread. Having been running Unraid for a little while now, I find myself using it for more and more. I've got quite a lot of Dockers running, with 6 drives of varying capacity, 1 parity drive, 1 M2 cache drive and obviously my USB drive with Unraid on it. Generally it runs OK and I think for people who have light demands of Unraid, an APU will be fine. However, when my server decides its time to do a weekly parity check, plus the mover runs to move files form the cache drive to the main array - the whole thing grinds to a very slow pace. You can see the APU threads being given a right thrashing. I also run Shinobi in a docker container and need the system to be capable of continuing to run when a parity check/cache mover kicks off. I'm going to be retiring the APU when I upgrade my current main rig, which has a 2700X in it. Hope this helps people with food for thought if they find this thread in a search Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) 46 minutes ago, TangoEchoAlpha said: However, when my server decides its time to do a weekly parity check, plus the mover runs to move files form the cache drive to the main array - the whole thing grinds to a very slow pace. This is a known issue with the 6.7.x releases of unRAID, if that is what you are running. I doubt it has anything to do with your CPU/APU. In the 6.8.0 release candidates (RC6 is the latest and RC 7 is coming soon), this is resolved. Edited November 18, 2019 by Hoopster Quote Link to comment
TangoEchoAlpha Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 @Hoopster Thanks for that Quote Link to comment
taiki_tan09 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 @TangoEchoAlpha Do you think you ca run a light gaming vm with that set up ? Quote Link to comment
mr.x Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Were you able to transcode in plex using the APU? Quote Link to comment
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