So I finally finished gathering the hardware for my first real homelab. I currently have a pi that I run nginx, searxng, and pihole, but I’m looking to move to something more hefty. I’ll probably leave pihole and nginx on the pi. I’m wanting to set up plex to host things for home use as well as a way to store photos, Documents, etc locally. Ideally my friends and I play games like valheim and icarus and I would like to be able to use a vm or container to host game servers when needed.
My hardware currently consists of an amd 4650g pro, 16gig ddr4, amd a520 mobo and 2 1tb m2s.
My question is I’m considering setting up proxmox for this but I wanted to see advice before I go to far. Is there a more preferred option? I’m not too hung up on cost but ideally I don’t want anything to run through like a host page off my network or something. And I would like something that will allow me to expand storage since 2tb isn’t really a lot
Don’t spend money moving from 1G to 10G if you’re not close to saturating your 1G switch, given you’ve only got one real server then the limiting factor will be the NIC on the server and I can’t imagine an a520 Mobo with anything more than 1G. And buying a PCI NIC for it shouldn’t be a priority if it’s not strictly needed. You’re also going to be limited by your Internet speeds, the HDD speeds and a lot of other factors before you can actually really get good utilization on a 10G Port. I struggle saturating my 2.5G NIC and I run quite a bit of things and have done various benchmark tests and it’s not easy saturating even 1G with real world load. Not to mention all the new ethernet cables you’ll need since most don’t have 10G cables in their setup, but 1G capable cables are fairly standard at least.
Makes sense! Thanks for saving me some time and money. I have gig internet as is so I know both my router and switch can handle it. Should be good with what I’ve got then for a while. Thank you kindly :))
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Don’t spend money moving from 1G to 10G if you’re not close to saturating your 1G switch, given you’ve only got one real server then the limiting factor will be the NIC on the server and I can’t imagine an a520 Mobo with anything more than 1G. And buying a PCI NIC for it shouldn’t be a priority if it’s not strictly needed. You’re also going to be limited by your Internet speeds, the HDD speeds and a lot of other factors before you can actually really get good utilization on a 10G Port. I struggle saturating my 2.5G NIC and I run quite a bit of things and have done various benchmark tests and it’s not easy saturating even 1G with real world load. Not to mention all the new ethernet cables you’ll need since most don’t have 10G cables in their setup, but 1G capable cables are fairly standard at least.
Makes sense! Thanks for saving me some time and money. I have gig internet as is so I know both my router and switch can handle it. Should be good with what I’ve got then for a while. Thank you kindly :))