November 20, 20205 yr Hi there, I'm currently speccing out a rebuild for my old unraid server. Currently it's used to run plex, a ubuntu VM which runs a very basic microk8s cluster and about 8/9 docker containers, runs well enough but RAM usage sits at 90% and CPU spikes all over the place. I've put the current spec sheet below: Intel Core i5-4440 Asus H81M-K mobo 16Gb DDR3 1600 Mhz Ram (Limit for the board) Onboard GPU only Sandisk 240GB SSD for cache 2TB Seagate BarraCuda Drive (7200RPM) for parity 2x 1TB Drives (Can't remember exact specs) I'm also looking at merging in my "gaming" pc as well to save on power consumption, the machine is fairly old, used to play a handful of non-intensive games like CK3 and the Sims 3 for my partner and running the following: Intel Core i5-4690k (Clocked to 4.20GHz) MSI Z97 G43 mobo 24Gb RAM (Can't remember exact specs on this either) Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 2 SSDs at 240GB each I think I currently have two options 1. Take the drives and RAM from the existing raid server and add them to the gaming pc leaving me with 32GB RAM and run a windows VM for the gaming aspect, my gut feel with this is the CPU won't be able to handle both especially as I'd only be running with 4 cores and 4 threads, only advantage would be clock speed. 2. Rebuild using an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, with 32GB RAM on a MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max, still assign 4 cores and threads to the windows vm while passing in the Nvidia GPU for at least comparable performance and the rest to the ubuntu vm/docker containers to buy them some breathing room. Gut thought is that this may be the better option albeit more costly but would give me an easier platform to upgrade on and bring up to spec in the future. Budget isn't a huge consideration in truth I'll be keeping an eye on the black friday sales but more want a sanity check that what I'm planning is possible for option 2 before I commit to a load of hardware that wont work.
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