Whatever you do, for the love of FL/OSS, please don't use Unraid. Proxmox and TrueNAS are far better options.
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What's wrong with unraid?
GPU passthrough is still a Bit of a pita so if you going to VM stuff you need a lot more tinkering aswell many EULA don’t allow VM usage so you need further configuration to avoid detection.
The biggest downside to having a classical setup is that you can’t easily limit resources. So if your game eats up all the RAM your NAS will slow down and vice versa.
imho both are good options it’s just choose your poison Just try both scenarios and choose what fits your workflow the best
I would prefer the hypervisor. It's cleaner to separate things that weren't meant to mix in the first place.
Make sure that your gaming VM uses a real harddrive/SSD instead of virtual disk to prevent sluggish I/O.
Have you considered/tried streaming games from your primary desktop PC? Obviously very dependent on your situation's specifics, but that's one of the things I do with the Linux htpc I have set up.
And then you wouldn't have to worry about games and NAS stuff competing for system resources.
I'd personally go the hypervisor route (I'm using proxmox, truenas, and an *arr stack on my NAS). It keeps things compartmentalized (especially network configurations) and usually keeps me from breaking everything at the same time.