Kaisaron78

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  1. First of all thank you everybody for answering me. As for the parity thing, I have read that unraid uses the biggest disk in the array as a parity drive. (errata corrige : the two disks in raid are actually 3TB instead of 2). In this case, my final array would be made up by 5+3+3 and my 10TB capacity would be wasted to parity. Right now I have almost 18TB of space at my disposal, (considering only 1 of those 3TB raid 1 disks of course) 4.5TB used and all the disk bays full. After moving to unraid my total capacity would drop to 11TB, 4.5 of wich used. I don't consider it a "benefit". The only thing I was considering is replacing 3 of 4 disks with 8TB drives and start fresh from there moving my 10TB to the backup station (in late april)...
  2. Good morning, I'll do my best to be concise in this topic, but I am Italian so don't flame on me if I write something odd :P I have a 1U rackmounted server based upon a Supermicro SYS-6017R chassis, X9DRD-iF motherboard equipped with 2xIntel Xeon E5-2620 and 64GB of ECC DDR3 ram, an NVidia Quadro P400 completes the "silicon part" of it. The storage of my server (4 bays 3.5in +1 2.5in SSD attached with velcro strips inside the chassis) is arranged like this: 1 seagate ironwolf 10TB for media, 1 WD Green 5TB for the "anime archive" (it's almost empty), 2 seagate barracuda 2TB in raid 1 for important documents managed by intel RAID. The grand total of available space is somewhere close to 16TB but I am using only 4.5TB to date. The server OS is Windows Server 2019 installed on the 120GB SSD, however, due to problems with antivirus software licensing, I'd like to move to a different solution. I had also some troubles in setting up Plex Transcoding using windows server (I got it working at the end but it was quite a long journey). By the end of april I will receive my "definitive" backup solution, a rackmount NAS from QNAP, so I don't need extra data security features on the server since I have multiple backups of my media files. To state the current situation, I turn this server on only when needed, mainly during the weekend when our local cost / KW is lower, I don't plan on keeping it on 24/7. I'd like to know: 1 ) can I replicate the same hard disk configuration in Unraid setting up the shares on my disks as they are now without using parity disks ? 2) is it a good idea to move away from windows server and install a VM in unraid running windows 10 passing through the quadro card just to run plex and a few other apps? 3) is it still possible to run unraid the same way I do with windows server, turning on and off my server as soon as I need it? Thank you all in advance for your patience and kind help! Have a nice day K.