Unraid Server Upgrade - Any Advice Welcome

[jozipaulo]

I am about to upgrade my unraid server and I was hoping I could get some advice or possible better options from those who have had more experience. Any advice is really appreciated.

 

Currently Im running 

Procesor: i3-2100

Mobo: MSI H61M-P21

Memory: 16GB DDR3 (cant remember the brand)

Hard Drives: 6 x WD 4TB Red    1 x WD 2TB Green 

Cache Drives: 2 x SSD WD 120GB Green

 

 

Im going to move the motherboard, processor & memory to my offsite freenas backup server as that hardware is failing.

So im going to upgrade those components.

 

 

Im looking at going with

Procesor: Ryzen 7 2700 ( R3,349  [$226} )

Mobo: MSI - X470 Gaming Pro Carbon  ( R3,979  [$269} )

Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 ( R2,000 [$135] )

 

 

Im considering the Ryzen 7200. As my current processor, though it is functioning adequately, I am seeing it hover around 50% - 90% on some of its cores. 

I feel more cores is going to help me expand on my virtual machines and docker containers where needed. 16GB of ram seems to be fine where im operating at 20% and I can always expand later.

Im running 3 virtual machines and 5-6 dockers. Not using the server to serve as a plex server, but it does serve movies directly to machines playing with VLC and other media players. 

 

Currently my budget is R10,000 (South African Rand - im located in South Africa) or $675 approximately. 

 

 

With this budget am I looking at a decent machine?  Are there any recommendations for a possibly better hardware round about the same price?

Im a little nervous going with the AMD processor. Though all the reviews of the Ryzen chips seem to be quite positive these days.

 

My budget is not set in stone so its a little flexible, but I cant spend much more than that.

 

Any advise is welcome and appreciated. Thanks everyone.