CPU and Motherboard for UnRaid

[Bikerznet]

Hi



I am looking at building a UnRaid server and am looking at recommendations for the CPU, Motherboard and amount of memory.



I will be using the server as a media server with the following dockers. Sabnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr and Plex. I will not be using virtual machines.



The plex will not be used for transcoding as I have an Apple ecosystem and use Infuse Pro as my media server and transcoding is done on my Apple TV hardware, instead of plex ....Plex is only used for syncing and metadata.



I will be using 2 parity drives (8TB each) and 4x 8TB media disks. With SSD's used for the caching and a non-assigned disk for my AppData. I already have a LSI 8i so amount of SATA on the board is not an issue.



There will also be a small share which I use for various backups..



Cheers

 

[Bikerznet]

Apple TV cannot decode everything as you say.. things like VP9 are software decoded by Infuse .... but this isn’t an issue really as my media files are in the correct format to be played directly... so no Plex decoding... in fact my past system just used Infuse connected to the file system on a WD NAS.... I’m adding Plex just because the Metadata is better and Infuse can us Plex metadata.

My initial idea is to use Ryzen CPU... but don’t want to over spec the CPU... or any parts to keep costs down

 

[Bikerznet]

I will use XFS for the main disks and BTRFS for the cache pool

 

[Bikerznet]

Looking at the Processors maybe a Ryzen 5 2600x and a B450 motherboard either GigaByte or MSI..any thoughts on this setup?

 

[Bikerznet]

Got it sorted, just looked around for a good deal on the CPU and Motherboard...So I got a Ryzen 3600 with a MSI B450-A PRO MAX Motherboard and put it in a Define7 case ... just setting it all up...