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Hello!
I’d like to start messing around with Unraid to see if it’s something that I would like to invest in. I’m currently running a Synology NAS 1819+ with 30TB of storage.
I have a Supermicro X8SIL-F and an Intel Xeon x3440 laying around so I was wondering if these components are still viable with Unraid. I plan on running 1 Windows 10 VM and a few dockers to start. I’m running a Jellyfin docker on my Synology NAS and it just chokes if it needs to do any transcoding.
Do you think it‘s worth the time messing around with the hardware that I have? I would have to spend some money on some RAM but it shouldn’t be too much since I would be just looking for DDR3 ECC used.
Thank you!
Supermicro X8SIL-F / Xeon x3440
in Motherboards and CPUs
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Thank you for your reply. That's good to hear that this is still a good combo.
I'm not too concerned about the idle power, if Unraid ends up fitting me needs then I will look into investing into a more recent generation Xeon. I know server grade hardware isn't necessarily needed, but I prefer to run it since I plan to have the final build run 24/7.
Appreciate the tips. I was able to pick up some RAM off eBay that was on the QVL and I still have the stock cooler that came with the CPU. It's not mounted right now, so I'll be able to put some fresh thermal paste.
Thank you again!