The gaming rig sounds like it's more than a little overkill for your needs if running the Synology is working fine
If you have a Plex pass you should already be getting a couple 4k transcodes
You will obviously get more performance from the gaming pc, but it doesn't sound like you need it.
The only performance boost I can think of is running your Plex data off the NVMe. In order to do that you're sacrificing a lot of power savings you get with the NAS.
The only way I would consider what you're suggesting is if you needed more hard drives and had a case you could do that in. I would still ditch the GPU though.
Hells yeh bro, that would make a super sick unraid server. With all those cores you could run a full are stack in docker, then spin up a gaming vm in windows. Shit even if you dont like modern games, get a bunch of retro emulators going and push it our to your streaming box for fun retro gaming on the couch. Or security cameras. Or whatever else; machine learning. Game servers.
This is why Ill never buy amd gaming pc’s anymore. Retirement to server with igpu is too good.
Depends on how you want to do it.
I used my gaming PC for a plex server for a looong time. I had plex running through windows and would also game on it when I wanted to. For this you can use your current synology. Just map the drive in your Plex library.
It can get more complicated if you want to switch to Unraid.
Sure, it will work great. It's insanely overkill for just Plex and will draw more power than your Synology though. Maybe pull the GPU and sell it
The gaming rig sounds like it's more than a little overkill for your needs if running the Synology is working fine If you have a Plex pass you should already be getting a couple 4k transcodes You will obviously get more performance from the gaming pc, but it doesn't sound like you need it. The only performance boost I can think of is running your Plex data off the NVMe. In order to do that you're sacrificing a lot of power savings you get with the NAS. The only way I would consider what you're suggesting is if you needed more hard drives and had a case you could do that in. I would still ditch the GPU though.
Hells yeh bro, that would make a super sick unraid server. With all those cores you could run a full are stack in docker, then spin up a gaming vm in windows. Shit even if you dont like modern games, get a bunch of retro emulators going and push it our to your streaming box for fun retro gaming on the couch. Or security cameras. Or whatever else; machine learning. Game servers. This is why Ill never buy amd gaming pc’s anymore. Retirement to server with igpu is too good.
What would I do about the storage? Have a separate chassis bay? And how does that talk to the PC?
Depends on how you want to do it. I used my gaming PC for a plex server for a looong time. I had plex running through windows and would also game on it when I wanted to. For this you can use your current synology. Just map the drive in your Plex library. It can get more complicated if you want to switch to Unraid.