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Hello Community, I hope it's correct to post this here - if not please move to another sub forum. Actually I wanted to buy an additinal Synology that I can use Docker on it to let a photo / video management software inside a container running, the photos / videos should also be saved on the Synology itself. Then I discovered unRAID, thought about to build a mall Mini-ITX NAS with a cheap SoC board and 4 disks to achieve what I originally wanted: Docker + photos / video storage. And now I am crazy and thinking about to convert my current Fractal Design Define R4 into a unRAID built and use a W10 VM as daily driver. Why? - No additional case I need a suitable space for - I can use all my existing hardware (Intel Pentium G4620, MSI board with 6 x SATA, 8 GB RAM, 1 x M2 512GB SSD, 2 x WD blue 4TB, 1 x WD black 1TB, nVidia GTX560 Ti) and only need to upgrade a few components like the CPU, RAM to fit my needs for an unRAID build. - My PC doesn't run 24/7, but long enough without working by myself on it and why don't use this time also for other things on the NAS But with all the fascination about unRAID and its possibilities I am really asking me if that make sense? Only a W10 VM and all is depending if unRAID works or not? What I do on my Windows 10 - I think for that the VM is for 90% enough: - Internet surfing - Music listening - MS Office - A little bit Gaming (mostly Steam) - Photo Editing - Video Editing The last point is the one with big question marks. Will that still work? With the current (not the best performance with my hardware) speed or slower? I planned to upgrade my PC for video editing (CPU, RAM, video card), but then there's no more budget at the moment for a separated unRAID built and with this in mind I got the idea to combine all. Why not upgrade the PC and using this for all without spending extra money on NAS hardware? And what about the gaming experience with shooters like CounterStrike? Maybe I would add more Docker containers and VMs (Linux) in future. What's your experience, does that make sense? Who converted his normal pc into an unRAID built and is using only one machine any more for all? Performance, power consumption? The fact that this machine will probably not run 24/7 - do you see problems here? Thank you in advance! 🙂

What a very nice built and place! When I saw this I really want to clean up my office 🙂 I am really new to unRAID and also thinking about to use one machine for all because of problems with another case in my little office. I wanted to buy a new Synology and ended up with total fascination about unRAID 🙂 A few questions about your system: - You let the system run 24/7 - would it be a problem for unRAID to startup and shut it down daily? I am not sure at the moment if I would let my big machine run all the time. A Synology with 10W power consumption is another story Do you know how much your systems eats? - How is the performance for things like gaming and maybe video cutting? I struggle with the speed of my current CPU (Pentium 4620) and thinking about to upgrade this. To use this hardware for unRAID AND my daily driver would be awesome to save hardware costs for a second system. But how will the W10 VM perform on unRAID? I think one separated this for the VM is than a must, right?