Bottlenecks in parts?

[imbenstaudt]

I've been doing some research on media servers for a few weeks and feel pretty comfortable about buying pretty new parts that will scale will with new codecs, but i'm not sure if my build is balanced to start with. 

5600 ryzen
intel a380
msi MPG B550 super gaming plus
18TB iron wolf HDD
mid tower with 10 HDD bays
650w psu
16gb 3200 ddr4 ram

Building for a media server is just a new experience for me, so I'm not really sure if I balanced the PC out well. Goal is to run a headless server running some instance of unraid or jellyfin.

[TheDreadPirate]

If this is only going to be running Jellyfin, you could get away with a cheaper CPU since you have the A380 for transcoding. If your budget isn't a concern, the 5600 is more than enough.

Something to keep in mind, the current version of Unraid is using Linux Kernel 6.1.99. Arc requires kernel version 6.2+. Since Docker containers and LXC's use the host's kernel, they would be affected as well. You'd have to run a VM within Unraid so that you can run a different Linux distro with its own kernel. And that adds more overhead and complexity

IMO, stick with a Debian based Linux distro. Running Docker on the command line is not that much different from Unraid's UI.

[imbenstaudt]

The 5600 was selected since I have a chance to get one for a great price, if I had to pay msrp I would definitely find a 2 or 3000 series ryzen. Glad to hear the only concerns I might have are in configuring the OS and not parts!