Hello, I’m planning on turning my gaming PC into a server. I have a few questions about this that perhaps someone can answer. I already have a 2bay NAS for testing purposes, but now it’s time to get serious. The PC is only used for about 2 hours a month anyway, so it’s cheaper than buying everything new. The Nas then becomes the media server; the N100 is sufficient for some parallel streams.
Following setup: CPU: Ryzen 5600X GPU: Radeon 7900 XT RAM: 48GB DDR5 PSU: be quiet pure power 12M 750W Motherboard: Asus TUF gaming X670E-Plus Case: Dark Base 701
Although the mainboard belongs to the upper class, unfortunately Asus apparently installs the cheapest Ethernet controller as standard, and the connection regularly breaks down when the device is accessed remotely. That’s why I use a …
Hello, I’m planning on turning my gaming PC into a server. I have a few questions about this that perhaps someone can answer. I already have a 2bay NAS for testing purposes, but now it’s time to get serious. The PC is only used for about 2 hours a month anyway, so it’s cheaper than buying everything new. The Nas then becomes the media server; the N100 is sufficient for some parallel streams.
Following setup: CPU: Ryzen 5600X GPU: Radeon 7900 XT RAM: 48GB DDR5 PSU: be quiet pure power 12M 750W Motherboard: Asus TUF gaming X670E-Plus Case: Dark Base 701
Although the mainboard belongs to the upper class, unfortunately Asus apparently installs the cheapest Ethernet controller as standard, and the connection regularly breaks down when the device is accessed remotely. That’s why I use a USB-C to 2.5G Ethernet adapter. Can something like this be used permanently in server operation, or do I still have to buy a PCI card?
About the software: I plan to use proxmox as a host, including unraid for disk management. For starters, 4x8TB is enough, I was thinking of raid 10 (data is important, even for professional purposes), or does unraid have better suitable raid formats?
Then I need 2 Windows server vms + 2 Windows 11 vms that need to run occasionally. On a separate network, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
In addition, I would like to operate services such as imm, paperless, nextcloud (3 important services) and mealie, home assistant etc... Does it make sense to run the 3 important ones as LXC containers, or should I use a vm with Debian and docker for all containers together?
A VM for gaming would also be nice. A linux vm with steam would be the obvious choice, does sunshine/moonlight work without any problems?
Remote access: I don’t have a fixed ip so I use a VPS with pangolin to get onto my nas. Would this also work with the server so I can reach individual services or vms? What would be best practice here?
Hard drives: WD red plus HDDs are planned, which are supposed to be very quiet. The price is ok, 8TB 170-200€, everything is expensive in Germany. For proxmox, unraid and container a 500GB wd red SSD, then a normal 2TB SSD for the other vms. Does it make sense to also operate the system SSD as a raid? Alternatively, the backup function of proxmox is supposed to work very well and easily, so I would have saved money otherwise.
Thank you very much for feedback and clarification of the questions.