Hi,
So after a couple months of saving I am looking at building my first homelab server using proxmox or going unraid. Now My current desktop is and AMD 5700G with 32GB DDR4-3600 & NVIDIA 3070 12gb with Asrock B550 motherboard which is what I use for daily activities.
Since this will be holding a large number of drives (16) the bulk use of it will be plex media server or jellyfin. I also plan to run some VM's & Dockers as well.
I'm debating on doing an intel i5 11th/12th gen build with onboard graphics for video transcoding, and encoding as I do make videos for youtube, facebook.. with motherboard, ddr5 and lsi raid card flashed to IT mode.
Or should I just upgrade my desktop to a newer intel 14th gen or ryzen 7000x series with board & ram and use the 5700g as my homelab server?
I do have a 1660ti I can put in it as well.
As for case either 4U Rackmount or Fractal Meshify, more leaning to the Meshify.
I bought 20+ Recertified Class Western Digital WDC H530 14tb's for 126.99$ each from serverpartsdeals.com over the last six months. Comes with a 2 year warranty, which is about what you would expect a drive to have anyways.
I also have a dozen Ironwolf 12tb's (no pro) which have 3yr warranty, but still, if I had new about the recertified drives then I would've been all over those.
Really its about how much space do you need, how many SATA slots can you fill, and your use for them.