AnthonyC

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  1. Yes I already have a lifetime Plex pass, the transcoding is worth the cost, I’m already using it on Win 10. It makes a real difference to how the TVs display the video.
  2. thanks, I was thinking it would do the job. As for HDDs I guess it’s one of those things, I had several failures with WD but none with Seagate so that makes me favour Seagate. Thanks for your reply.
  3. After problems in the past with WD I’ve steered away from them. I have used lots of Seagate drives without any failure's so it’s become my trusted drive manufacturer.
  4. Hello everyone. I am so new to Unraid that I haven’t even downloaded it yet! I am familiar with NAS drives though. I have an ASUS H170-pro motherboard with intel i7-6700 CPU, 32Gb of non ECC ram & a M.2 500Gb SSD. I’m guessing that I can do away with the Nvidia graphics card as I would use it headless. I currently have 2x4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD configured as one 8TB drive. I know the risks with that but the drive backs up to an external NAS drive. I also have 1x2TB drive also Seagate but not an Ironwolf. It currently runs Win10 and is used to store all my media content. I use Plex server to make that content available to the TVs around the house. My questions & thoughts are getting rid of win 10 and using Unraid instead. I was thinking of having 3x4TB drives (I already have those) for the data & 2x8TB parity drives to allow for some future expansion. I assume I could use the existing 500Gb M.2 drive as a cache drive. I only plan to use Plex server. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports. Basically I’m asking would that work? My other question is that this PC has a Cyber-Power BR1000ELCD UPS attached, & would really like to keep that. Would it work with Unraid? Oh yes & the PSU is an Antec TP-750. So any comments, guidance would be welcome. Anthony