So I have a gaming desktop that is on 24/7 it uses up a pretty good amount of power with a 2600k overclocked, 6 hard drives, 16GB Ram and a 7970 GPU.
I use it less and less for gaming and mostly for photoshop, voice over work, video editing, web browsing, etc.
I am in the process of building a NAS, I plan to reduce the # of drives in my desktop to just what I need for OS and working files and so that means another 24/7 on box.
Probably for now just a cheap Dell T30 and 4 drives to get me started until I can commit to a bigger setup.
That is where my question comes in. That bigger setup.
I hate having multiple devices on 24/7 and since my desktop is doing a lot of server type duties and I would love to have the power to encode movies faster, do big plex streams, etc etc why not get a BIG rack server and run that?
Main issue now is noise, secondary issue is cost.
To offset the cost I was thinking of decommissioning my desktop. Let the server be my desktop either by "physicalizing" it via PCI pass thru or by RDP with a thin client.
That will make up for some of the servers 24/7 running cost by having my desktop offline and I get all the benefits and features of having a super server for a desktop.
But the question is, is this practical? and what is the best way to implement it?
I use it less and less for gaming and mostly for photoshop, voice over work, video editing, web browsing, etc.
I am in the process of building a NAS, I plan to reduce the # of drives in my desktop to just what I need for OS and working files and so that means another 24/7 on box.
Probably for now just a cheap Dell T30 and 4 drives to get me started until I can commit to a bigger setup.
That is where my question comes in. That bigger setup.
I hate having multiple devices on 24/7 and since my desktop is doing a lot of server type duties and I would love to have the power to encode movies faster, do big plex streams, etc etc why not get a BIG rack server and run that?
Main issue now is noise, secondary issue is cost.
To offset the cost I was thinking of decommissioning my desktop. Let the server be my desktop either by "physicalizing" it via PCI pass thru or by RDP with a thin client.
That will make up for some of the servers 24/7 running cost by having my desktop offline and I get all the benefits and features of having a super server for a desktop.
But the question is, is this practical? and what is the best way to implement it?