Unraid for home

[Rakha]

Hi.

I would like to build a Unraid server and use an "all in a box." 
But I have no overview of what is required of hardware to get it to run.

We are 3 people in the home. 
2 who loves to play WOW and Guild Wars 2. 
One who play little games and on the Internet. 
These I would like to run through 3 VM's.

In addition it must be able to accommodate 
our film and music collection to be 
stremes to our KODI PCs and our HEOS speakers.

 

Hardware:

CPU:

GPU:

MOBO:

RAM:

PSU:
Storage:

CPU Cooler:

 

I hope you will help me.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How do you want to spend?

 

 

Id suggest against using the nas for vm's for games, id just get a few lowend gaming pc's. There is a lot of hassle with running a gaming vm, and its really not worth it.

 

If you did want to do that

 

WIth the gaming vm's

6700k, 32gb ram, 250gb ssd boot + whatever hdd's you want, and 2 gpu's for games(id go something like a gtx 1050).

 

Without gaming vms

pentium g4400, 4gb ram, the hdds you want(no need for a cache drive)

[Mikensan]

Just a tidbit about using unraid to host your game machines, be ready to have to tinker fairly often. There's a lot of trial and error (spanning days) Linus does not show on camera. I would say this is for somebody that enjoys troubleshooting (some of us really do).

 

You could probably get away with running 2 VMs off of 1 SSD if you're on a tight budget. Then you'd buy some mechanical disks to use for your storage. Inside of unraid you just tell it to use the SSD for VMs and the mechanical disks for storage. Going into greater detail is a bit redundant as unraid and youtube cover the step by step.

 

Mirroring SSDs is great and all but if something kills one SSD likely it'll take out the other SSD as they'll be under the same load / wear&tear. Just be active on backups.