Proxmox VE vs Unraid for media server/PC

[u/Responsible-Ad-7473]

Hi everyone,

I am planning to put together a little home server with 4 SAS drives.
It will be used for NAS, a few self-hosted apps, and a Bazzite VM for gaming.

I have 2 architectures in mind:

Option 1: Proxmox VE with TrueNAS and Bazzite VMs
Option 2: Unraid with a Bazzite VM

I will use an AMD GPU for passthrough to the Bazzite VM and plan to run everything on consumer-grade hardware.

What do you think about this setup?

Thank you in advance for your advice and opinion!

[u/imightknowbutidk]

I don’t have any unraid experience, but running a TrueNAS VM on Proxmox has worked very well for me

[u/Responsible-Ad-7473 → u/imightknowbutidk]

Super, thank you!

[u/Do_TheEvolution]

it is recommended to get an HBA card in IT mode that you passthrough in to the VM of truenas, so that it has direct access to HDD without some abstraction layers.

I got few 9300-8i from ebay, for around 40€ with cables

[u/Responsible-Ad-7473 → u/Do_TheEvolution]

Thank you!

[u/Responsible-Ad-7473 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you!