I've used StableBit DrivePool & Scanner for a couple of years now and it's worked great. The thing is, the pool is in my primary workstation which I also use for work, gaming, VR (Oculus Rift), plus running a lot of hosted apps like Plex Media Server, Sonarr, Radarr, etc... Currently, the workstation can use up to 50% of its resources at idle which is obviously crazy. The workstation is already at the best CPU it can have for the socket and realize that to get a new one I'd have to buy all new CPU, Motherboard, & RAM. I therefore decided to build a PC from spare parts and migrate the pool plus hosted apps to it which should offload a lot of resource usage
Below are a few questions I have followed by the specs for my current workstation, & the PC I plan to migrate to. Any thoughts, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated!
My Questions
My main reason for posting is to get suggestions and see if there are any alternate ways to go about this so if you have any thoughts, please let me know. Below are the questions I currently have...
I considered running all my hosted apps via containers on a dedicated system and offload resources that way, but many of them frequently use files in the pool like Plex therefore would have to access them over the LAN. Although I have a gigabit network (who doesn't), I thought it would be best to have the hosted apps local to the pool which is why I decided to go the route mentioned above. I considered installing Docker onto the new PC hosting the pool as I currently use Atomic on a spare dedicated PC and love it, but seems that would just overcomplicate things if everything's local anyways. Would you do it differently?
Would the PC I put together as specced below be suitable to host the pool alone? I know the hosted apps will add a lot of usage, but first wanted to see if it would be good for the pool of course If no, where is it lacking? Will more RAM make any difference?
Would an OS other than Server 2016 be preferred? Last i checked DrivePool is Windows only, but wanted to ask.
I know this is the StableBit forum and love the software, but is my pool perhaps getting to a size (physical) where an alternate solution would be preferred such as using UNRAID or similar since it supports containers & disk pools? i don't know much about it, but was curious if anyone else did.
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Hey Guys -
I've used StableBit DrivePool & Scanner for a couple of years now and it's worked great. The thing is, the pool is in my primary workstation which I also use for work, gaming, VR (Oculus Rift), plus running a lot of hosted apps like Plex Media Server, Sonarr, Radarr, etc... Currently, the workstation can use up to 50% of its resources at idle which is obviously crazy. The workstation is already at the best CPU it can have for the socket and realize that to get a new one I'd have to buy all new CPU, Motherboard, & RAM. I therefore decided to build a PC from spare parts and migrate the pool plus hosted apps to it which should offload a lot of resource usage
Below are a few questions I have followed by the specs for my current workstation, & the PC I plan to migrate to. Any thoughts, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated!
My Questions
My main reason for posting is to get suggestions and see if there are any alternate ways to go about this so if you have any thoughts, please let me know. Below are the questions I currently have...
Specs for Current Workstation
Specs for Space PC I Plan to Migrate To (Current state)
That's about it. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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