Ryzen 7 Build unRaid Build

[twok]

Dear all,

 

I'm building a new Ryzen 7 based unRaid build together with a friend for his dad. The budget is up to 3k and a bit and it should be "future-proof / expandable".

 

Main use will be vm images

• For Video Editing mostly cutting + encoding and little gaming with GPU passthrough 
• For Remote Access / Working

and few dockers like:

• Plex
• some Cloud (nextcloud most likely)
• syncthing
• guacamole for remote access
• maybe a few more

as well as some long term storage

• 4x 8TB Array = ~ 24 TB Share + 1x 8 TB Parity
• 2x 480 GB SSD for Cache Pool = ~480 GB SSD Share
• 1x Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512G for vm passthrough

Components: (quantity 0 = optional/ alternative or not yet decided)

 

4 Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB, SATA 6Gb/s (ST8000AS0002)
1 Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB, M.2 (MZ-V6P512BW)
2 Intel SSD DC S3520 480GB, 2.5", SATA (SSDSC2BB480G701)
2 DeLOCK Flexi SATA 6Gb/s cable black 30cm, straight/straight (83840)
1 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, 8x 3.40GHz, boxed without cooler (YD170XBCAEWOF)
2 G.Skill RipJaws V black DIMM kit 32GB, DDR4-3200, CL16-18-18-38 (F4-3200C16D-32GVK)
0 MSI GeForce GT 730 (GK208), N730K-2GD3H/LP, 2GB DDR3, VGA, DVI, HDMI (V809-001R)
1 Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti StormX, 4GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort (NE5105T018G1F)
0 Sapphire Radeon HD 6450, 2GB DDR3, VGA, DVI, HDMI, lite retail (11190-09-20G)
1 Sapphire Radeon R5 230, 2GB DDR3, VGA, DVI, HDMI, lite retail (11233-02-20G)
1 ASUS Prime X370-Pro (90MB0TD0-M0EAY0)
0 be quiet! Silent Wings 3 PWM high-speed, 140mm (BL071)
1 be quiet! Shadow Rock 2 SR1 (BK013)
1 be quiet! Dark Base 900 black, noise-insulated (BG011)
1 be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W ATX 2.4 (BN253)
1 APC Back-UPS Pro 900VA schuko plug, USB (BR900G-GR)

 

overall current sum: 3300 Euros. Not including a USB Stick + unRaid license.

 

open questions/ concerns I would as specially welcome your comments

• 1700 or 1700x
• High-Speed-Ram or ECC
• did I miss something?
• PSU is 850 not 750 because of expected to be extend array

 

i know those questions are a bit like north and south pole - there are thinks that speak for both while the price is just a minor difference (not counting the increased power consumption)

 

thanks and all the best,

Matt

[GDRRiley]

get some proper NAS/enterprise HDDs. you don't need gpus for each VM. You only really need 2

[Mayaa]

So to your open questions:

 

You can save some money on the 1700 instead of the x, the only real difference is the clock speed, which if you really want it you can just manually overclock it.

With a fairly decent array, i would assume ECC memory, but someone else can probably fill you in on that better than me.

I know it's not really a server but possibly some improved networking? Either 2gbit or all the way to 10gbit.

[twok]

20 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

get some proper NAS/enterprise HDDs. you don't need gpus for each VM. You only really need 2

hey -

 

I'm running great with those seagate NAS mayself. what's bad about them? I think they got the best bang for bugs in that categorie atm.

only 2 planned. the 1050 for the graphic intense vm and the other for unRaid itself. the other two are just alternative option in case I can't get the one preferred.

 

14 hours ago, Mayaa said:

So to your open questions:

 

You can save some money on the 1700 instead of the x, the only real difference is the clock speed, which if you really want it you can just manually overclock it.

With a fairly decent array, i would assume ECC memory, but someone else can probably fill you in on that better than me.

I know it's not really a server but possibly some improved networking? Either 2gbit or all the way to 10gbit.

1700 and 1700X in Europe/ Austria was like 5 Euros difference therefore I even considered it.

After reading some about 3200 ram vs ecc the 3200 win big (for me)

 

good point with the network. we have some 10g cards laying around that we are going to test before ordering new ones.

 

cheers.

Matt

[GDRRiley]

6 hours ago, twok said:

hey -

 

I'm running great with those seagate NAS mayself. what's bad about them? I think they got the best bang for bugs in that categorie atm.

only 2 planned. the 1050 for the graphic intense vm and the other for unRaid itself. the other two are just alternative option in case I can't get the one preferred.

archive drives are slower for random writes and are not as good as a proper one. 

[NelizMastr]

Factor in the license cost for UnRAID as well. You'll need a Pro or Plus license at the very least ($89 - $129), I'd go Pro so you can add as much storage as you want.

 

Also, a 900VA UPS won't keep the system running for very long if it's hard at work, so that's also a thing to take into consideration.