Hello! I'm upgrading my home server and am looking for some advice on how to use all of my available hardware.

My server runs off of an old 6600k with DDR4 RAM. I have a new motherboard and a 14600k on order with plans to reuse the RAM since the speed and amount (32GB) is sufficient for now.

This server started as a Plex server with an Arr stack. I've added some small YouTube utilities (MeTube and Pinchflat) as well as Home Assistant. This is all running in OMV with mergerfs and SnapRAID for storage.

Here are a two plans that I need help deciding between. I'm worried about cramping my expansion possibilities or making things convoluted for no gains:

1. All-in-one Server: Everything moves over to the new 14600k server, including Plex, my NAS, and other self-hosted utilities. I've got a NAS case that will support 10 3.5" drives as well as a SATA controller card to expand my available 6 Gbps ports to 12.

2. Media Server and NAS Server: The 14600k machine runs Plex and all other self-hosted tools. The 6600k runs OMV to manage NAS storage on a separate machine.

Long story short: I have all of the required hardware to make two machines. Does that make things easier for me in the long run, or am I just over complicating things?

Seriously I've been too scared to ask

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33818262

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From now until 12 a.m. PST, Bandcamp will pass 100% of revenue directly to artists. From its website:

Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities.

I'm still running a 6th-generation Intel CPU (i5-6600k) on my media server, with 64GB of RAM and a Quadro P1000 for the rare 1080p transcoding needs. Windows 10 is still my OS from when it was a gaming PC and I want to switch to Linux. I'm a casual user on my personal machine, as well as with OpenWRT on my network hardware.

Here are the few features I need:

• MergerFS with a RAID option for drive redundancy. I use multiple 12TB drives right now and have my media types separated between each. I'd like to have one pool that I can be flexible with space between each share.
• Docker for *arr/media downloaders/RSS feed reader/various FOSS tools and gizmos.
• I'd like to start working with Home Assistant. Installing with WSL hasn't worked for me, so switching to Linux seems like the best option for this.

Guides like Perfect Media Server say that Proxmox is better than a traditional distro like Debian/Ubuntu, but I'm concerned about performance on my 6600k. Will LXCs and/or a VM for Docker push my CPU to its limits? Or should I do standard Debian or even OpenMediaVault?

I'm comfortable learning Proxmox and its intricacies, especially if I can move my Windows 10 install into a VM as a failsafe while building a storage pool with new drives.

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