Server consolidation with unRAID

[Johnny G]

Hi, I'm a new user on LTT forums, but I've been watching the videos for a long time now.

After a recent house move and with the work being all complete, I want to consolidate my servers into one physical machine with unRAID. But, I'd like some advice, pointers or alternative suggestions.

 

So, my current setup is:

1x QNAP 4 bay NAS with 4x 6Tb disks.

1x Video editing/converter machine (i5, 32Gb RAM, GTX 960)

1x Torrent downloading instance (i3, 16Gb RAM, integrated GFX)

1x TV Media & Plex server (4x 4 DVBS tuners, 2x 4 DVBC tuners)

 

So, I want to effectively put a 4U machine together in my garage that could virtualise the above machines and in addition, run a pfsense instance. My broadband cable feed comes in from the garage, my satellite feeds come in through the garage as well, so housing it in there, in a wall mount rack cabinet.

 

I'll be mostly buying new hardware, so I need advice on what case would allow full height PCIe cards. I need 1, maybe 2 GFX cards, and 6 PCI TV tuners, I could go down to 5, maybe). I would like to increase my storage capacity significantly.

 

Happy to hear your discussion and recommendations. Budget is around £4,000 GBP