Looking for advice upgrading my existing home media server
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Pleaseclap4 · 2023-11-18 17:07

Hi!  I'm trying to change some things around as I'm not happy with my
current setup.  To preface, this machine stores and serves media to
all the clients in the house, as well as to our neighbor via reverse
proxy and FQDN.  I'd love some guidance and advice from you all.

***My current setup:***

* X570 Motherboard w/ Ryzen 5950x CPU
* 32GB DDR4
* 6x 3.5" HDD connected via HBA PCI card
* UNRAID
* Runs Jellyfin, the RR's, the basic home media server stack in other
words

***Issues to solve:***

* I dislike UNRAID
   * Not impressed with VM support
   * Don't care for the UI
   * Just too used to regular Linux and would rather use that
* Transcoding Ability
   * the 5950x does not have iGpu
   * I've mucked around with Tdarr a bit, but don't really understand
it

***Hardware available/on-hand:***

* Gaming tower I'm currently using for gaming
   * 10700k processor
      * Can resolve the transcoding issue
* Spare PC
   * z690 board with 12900k

Being a textbook overthinker, I'm stuck here.  So, what is immediately
apparent to me is that my media server would be much better off on the
10700k machine, as it has iGpu, while the current server with 5950x
would be much better as a gaming PC.  So there is the thought to swap
out some stuff, ending up with my gaming PC having the 5950x and
graphics card, and my server having now the 10700k.  Additionally,
instead of UNRaid, I think I'd rather go with either Proxmox or ESXi.
Then from there, spin up a Linux VM for my Jellyfin/RR's stack, and
spin up another VM with TrueNAS Core.

I've also got a nice 12900k machine I use at my business, but it's
wildly overkill for what it's used for, so that could play a part here
too.

What would you do, given the above information?

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