Hello everyone i'm here to enlist the help of you server guru's.
I'm currently running a lot of things on my windows gaming PC that i would love to move over to a home server. I have a few requirements that i'm sure will be easily met with the allotted budget of $700.
**PLEX** - I currently have 2 5TB seagate 5400 RPM drives holding all of my media. I have about 1.8TB remaining. I found a little tool called Sickbeard Mp4 Automator that i've been using to convert all of my media over to MP4 H264 so that less transcoding would be required. I don't plan on more than 2 people to be transcoding a 1080p movie at once at any given time or hopefully at all.
ARK - I want to also have the ability to run a heavily modded ARK survival evolved game server. I only plan on having around 10-20 people on the server at any given time. I do plan on using a lot of mods so i assume i need a lot of ram. I would guess 16gb would cover it but i want the ability to expand to 32 later so i figure 2x8gb right now just to get up and running. I'm not sure about the CPU requirements on this though.
**OTHER STUFF** - I will want to use Sonarr, Radarr, Ubooquiti, whatever torrent downloader works best, Jackett, Plexpy, Home-Assistant, MQTT, and possibly a few other small services
**POWER** - I plan to have this running 24/7 and i would like it to go in my small broom closet if possible. I would like this to stay relatively cheap to run each month. I'm concerned about heat though. Will it be okay or should i have it out in an open room?
Here is a pcpartpicker list that i've created just as a jumping point. Is there anything you guys see missing or that i should change out?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel - Core i3-7100 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($92.93 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ B&H)
Case: Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
External Storage: Seagate - Expansion 5TB External Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
External Storage: Seagate - Expansion 5TB External Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $642.77
Will everything i mentioned above work within a linux environment? Especially that mp4 conversion script.
The 2 5TB drives that i have were external usb drives that i shucked from their cases and put in my pc. They will be used in the server. I was reading about SnapRaid and from what i understand is that i could just buy another 5TB drive and use that as a parity/backup drive in case one of the other 2 5tb drives go out i can recover all of the media. Is this assumption correct? And can i just keep buying more 5TB drives until i get to like 4 5TB drives with 1 5TB drive as parity for the other 4?
I know these are a lot of questions but i've never really built a server before and i want to make sure i'm getting the best bang for my buck.
I'm currently running a lot of things on my windows gaming PC that i would love to move over to a home server. I have a few requirements that i'm sure will be easily met with the allotted budget of $700.
**PLEX** - I currently have 2 5TB seagate 5400 RPM drives holding all of my media. I have about 1.8TB remaining. I found a little tool called Sickbeard Mp4 Automator that i've been using to convert all of my media over to MP4 H264 so that less transcoding would be required. I don't plan on more than 2 people to be transcoding a 1080p movie at once at any given time or hopefully at all.
ARK - I want to also have the ability to run a heavily modded ARK survival evolved game server. I only plan on having around 10-20 people on the server at any given time. I do plan on using a lot of mods so i assume i need a lot of ram. I would guess 16gb would cover it but i want the ability to expand to 32 later so i figure 2x8gb right now just to get up and running. I'm not sure about the CPU requirements on this though.
**OTHER STUFF** - I will want to use Sonarr, Radarr, Ubooquiti, whatever torrent downloader works best, Jackett, Plexpy, Home-Assistant, MQTT, and possibly a few other small services
**POWER** - I plan to have this running 24/7 and i would like it to go in my small broom closet if possible. I would like this to stay relatively cheap to run each month. I'm concerned about heat though. Will it be okay or should i have it out in an open room?
Here is a pcpartpicker list that i've created just as a jumping point. Is there anything you guys see missing or that i should change out?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel - Core i3-7100 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($92.93 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ B&H)
Case: Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
External Storage: Seagate - Expansion 5TB External Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
External Storage: Seagate - Expansion 5TB External Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $642.77
Will everything i mentioned above work within a linux environment? Especially that mp4 conversion script.
The 2 5TB drives that i have were external usb drives that i shucked from their cases and put in my pc. They will be used in the server. I was reading about SnapRaid and from what i understand is that i could just buy another 5TB drive and use that as a parity/backup drive in case one of the other 2 5tb drives go out i can recover all of the media. Is this assumption correct? And can i just keep buying more 5TB drives until i get to like 4 5TB drives with 1 5TB drive as parity for the other 4?
I know these are a lot of questions but i've never really built a server before and i want to make sure i'm getting the best bang for my buck.
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