Well to get going on planning your res, you need to say what your medium and the number/volume of pots you are working with is, too.
I don't think that a significant percentage of soil growers use a res, simply because it IS a lot of maintenance keeping pH where it should be etc, and you would be most likely running drip-to-waste anyhow because of the logistics of filtering out soil particles that could clog the pump, and then you also would need a waste one.
Is it done? Yup.
Commonly? Nope!