Need help/suggestions for MC/Gmod server

[wolfmanOP]

Basically I took all my old hardware and threw it in an old optiplex case to use as a server for some games my friends and I like to play. We plan to run a public Gmod server and a private modded mc server that a couple of us will be on. 

 

The main question is, will the existing 5400 hdd be good enough for this, or will it get too slow when servers are running with multiple people. Should I just get a simple 120gb ssd and use that instead? 

 

Server specs:

 

AMD 4350 4c4t

EVGA 1050ti 4gb

12gb G.Skill Ripjaw 1666mhz

[Slayer3032]

Source servers are horrendously single threaded, sure it's improved over the years as the networking and a few other unimportant things have been multithreaded but unless you're running large player counts you won't notice the added multithreading much. I'd be much more concerned over cpu performance than hard drive performance. Memory might also be a problem as modded minecraft servers need tons of memory.

 

As far as the hard drive, it'll be fine. Startup times will be terrible, it might affect the minecraft server more when saving, ect. but being a private server it shouldn't be much of a problem.

[wolfmanOP]

21 hours ago, Slayer3032 said:

Source servers are horrendously single threaded, sure it's improved over the years as the networking and a few other unimportant things have been multithreaded but unless you're running large player counts you won't notice the added multithreading much. I'd be much more concerned over cpu performance than hard drive performance. Memory might also be a problem as modded minecraft servers need tons of memory.

 

As far as the hard drive, it'll be fine. Startup times will be terrible, it might affect the minecraft server more when saving, ect. but being a private server it shouldn't be much of a problem.

Well currently my friend is running the modded mc server off his PC while we play and it isn't too bad, but I figured a dedicated server (even with worse specs) might be better. We're probably mainly going to use it as MC and not so much GMod. 

 

 He's running a 6700 or 7600 (I don't quite remember) and a 1060 6gb with 16gb ddr4 and has like 8 dedicated for the server. Would it be better to keep running it off that or possibly just have it run off my main PC as opposed to using that server setup?

 

My PC is an 8700k @5.0ghz msi trio 2080 and 16gb ddr4

[Slayer3032]

9 hours ago, wolfmanOP said:

Well currently my friend is running the modded mc server off his PC while we play and it isn't too bad, but I figured a dedicated server (even with worse specs) might be better. We're probably mainly going to use it as MC and not so much GMod. 

 

 He's running a 6700 or 7600 (I don't quite remember) and a 1060 6gb with 16gb ddr4 and has like 8 dedicated for the server. Would it be better to keep running it off that or possibly just have it run off my main PC as opposed to using that server setup?

 

My PC is an 8700k @5.0ghz msi trio 2080 and 16gb ddr4

If you're only needing the servers from time to time, your computer would be a significantly better option to run it from quality wise. It all depends on if you're wanting to keep your computer on while the server is being used.

[wolfmanOP]

11 hours ago, Slayer3032 said:

If you're only needing the servers from time to time, your computer would be a significantly better option to run it from quality wise. It all depends on if you're wanting to keep your computer on while the server is being used.

I leave my computer on a good majority of the time anyway for netflix and such. The main reason I wanted the server was so a couple of my buddies could remote into it if they needed to change something on the server that type of thing, and just didnt want them to remote right into my main desktop