What can my NUC10i5FNK handle!?

[Gerard Oedzes]

Dear Proxmox users,

Let me briefly explain my situation first.

At the moment I have 2 different servers.

• Intel NUC10i5FNK 32GB RAM / 1TB NVME
• DIY server Intel XEON 2146G - 64GB RAM / 1TB NVME / 8 WD-RED 4TB.

Both are now running Proxmox 7.3-3

The Intel NUC:

• LXC Container Domoticz (DzVents Scripts)
• LXC Container SONOS HTTP API
• Ubuntu Server VM WebTools - running Docker containers: Heimdall & Nginx
• Ubuntu Server VM Domotica - running Docker containers: Mosquitto, Zigbee2mqtt (100 devices) & NodeRed
• Homeassistant VM

The DIY server:

• True Nas Scale VM
• Ubuntu Server VM MultiMedia - running Docker containers: PLEX, Tautulli, NZBGet.

Now that I've recently started researching to upgrade the DIY server, I've also taken a good look at the Intel NUC.

With an uptime of more than a year, the CPU consumption never exceeds 1%!
The RAM memory never exceeds 50%.

The DIY server is actually only used once in the evening, but since plex uses the Xeon's IGPU, it rarely exceeds 10%!

Since power consumption is also becoming an important issue, I'm thinking about running PLEX, Tautulli and NZB Get in an extra VM on the NUC and then using the NUC's IGPU for PLEX transcoding.

This way I could install TrueNAS directly on my DIY server with a new energy efficient CPU as it only serves as a NAS without extra plugins.
As far as I'm concerned, an Intel Celeron or something.

Do you think this is lochic? or am I really asking too much of my little Intel NUC?

Or maybe I'm overlooking something else?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

 

[noel.]

Sounds to me like a good plan, I think. You might want to install a PLEX vm on the nuc and use it for a couple of days to see how it runs before making any drastic changes to your setup.

Regarding the DIY server: you could get a core i3-7100T or something, which only has a TDP of 25 Watts instead of the 80 Watts of your Xeon. The core i3-7100T uses the same socket as the Xeon and can use up to 64 gigs of ram, so you should be able to install it in your current mainboard together with your current ram. You can further undervolt the i3 to be more power efficient. Depending on your powersupply, you could also upgrade to something with a platinum rating to get better power efficiency.