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OK thanks I didn't know that. Though I have no need nor the budget for an epyc cpu. I just bought a used Gigabyte motherboard to host the i3 7100 I randomly found in my closet. I just hope it'll be fast enough to transcode my movies in Plex. I just need to wait for my paycheck to get some ram.

Yeah my very first own PC was an AMD Athlon 64 which I replaced with their first dual core cpu later. I bought it because it was cheap and I didn't know anything about computers back then. And the friend who gave me his amd computer is usually very cheap with tech in general. I'm still considering building a ryzen system despite having a spare Intel cpu because the 1151 motherboards I find on ebay are quite expensive. Especially for the second hand market. I found one for €50 but it seems quite beaten up.

I know all of this but thank you for the refresher. Though I thought AMD was smacking Intel NOW at least in price to performance terms. Funny thing is right after I replied to your previous message I went to rearrange my CPU boxes in my dressing (yeah I'm a messy guy lol) and realized my i3 7100 box wasn't empty as others are but the cpu is inside, just the cooler is missing. So I might buy a socket 1151 mobo on ebay and forget about amd. I just want to try it some day.

Thanks for your reply. Crap, I completely forgot about quicksync, the reason I chose the Intel route for my previous build. I might switch to scenario 2 then. Maybe choosing a faster Ryzen CPU for my new desktop PC then ? Not caring about not buying a graphics card in that case as I’d reuse the one in my current desktop. Any advice ? I never really thought about Ryzen but I’d really like to try. I have no clue what they offer though.

Hi. Due to unexpected income issues I had to sell my completely overkill (for my use) Intel i5 13500 based Unraid NAS (actually just the motherboard, CPU and RAM. I kept the Hard drives, PSU and the case) back in late 2023. Now these problems are behind me I'd like to build a new one and I'm hesitant between Intel and AMD Ryzen. I'm French and buying a Ryzen 5 5500G, an AM4 mobo and 16 GB of RAM (I'd choose an APU to avoid buying a graphics card) from Germany would cost me around €230-250 (including shipping) for the parts missing for now (buying from France would increase the cost even with free shipping). A similar Intel rig would set me back at least €400! I only ever owned one AMD based desktop, it was my first own desktop my mom bought me when I graduated from high school almost 20 years ago. Since then I always built Intel based desktops. As a result I currently have a 6 year old i7 8700K based desktop hackintosh running the latest versions of macOS (Sonoma), Windows 11 (not by choice though) and Ubuntu (23.10), and 2 old PCs I was gifted over the years: a 14 year old prebuilt Lenovo m58e desktop I was given after an internship (with a Core2Duo I replaced with the highest end LGA775 Core2Quad) but I maxed out the RAM at 4GB DDR2. The other PC is a very slow AMD (A6) based laptop left by my best friend who doesn't want to hear about it anymore. I have 3 scenarii: 1. I build a Ryzen NAS and keep the Intel i7 desktop as is. 2. I build the very same Ryzen rig to replace my current Intel i7 desktop and use the latter as an Unraid NAS. 3. I don't build a new PC and use the 14 years old Core2Quad desktop as a NAS. What should I do? Knowing the Unraid rig would mostly be used for backing up my Synology NAS, and replacing it as a Plex server. I'm not interested in VMs at the moment. Personally I'd tend more towards scenario 1. Thanks for reading.

Thanks for the reply. I think I'll sell my I5 13500 and see how it goes before thinking about selling either the i7 8700k or the synology.

Hi! I own quite a few PCs in my flat, mostly laptops and two desktops I built myself. The two desktops are the only ones I feel comfortable selling considering almost all the laptops I have have at least one hardware problem. One of the desktops I built in 2018 was used as a hackintosh and Windows machine but it ended up hosting my unraid setup instead of the one I built for this purpose. It has a Z370P D3 from Gigabyte and an i7 8700k. The other one I built to host my unraid setup but it ended up replacing the other desktop. It has a Gigabyte mobo with an I5 13500. I'm considering selling both as I'm facing temporary income issues. I'd like to replace my current unraid setup with a very old PC I was gifted after an internship. I think it meets the minimum requirements for unraid. It's a socket 775 core2quad Q9500 with 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. As I'm just barely using unraid's potential (I'm using it as a backup of my Synology NAS' data, only using a plex vm in case my Synology NAS crashes), I think it would be enough for my needs. Considering these would you do this change? Would you use unraid or would you use openmediavault, which I used before switching to unraid? Thanks in advance.

Thank you! It works so far.

It does! But how do I automate that? The rsync module on my Synology doesn't seem to acknowledge my Unraid NAS. It worked just fine on OMV (before I replaced OMV with Unraid).

OK I was able to learn that I had to mount the remote share before proceeding. I found the "Unassigned Devices" plugin, in which I was able to mount the remote share and proceed to start the copy to my unraid NAS via the GUI. BUT I still want to be able to sync my data, which I couldn't find a way to achieve. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

For the record I don't care how I do it, I just need to transfer my data. LuckyBackup seemed the simplest option.

Hi. I'm (very) new to unraid so I've been spending my free time over the last 2 days to try to find a way to backup my data from my Synology NAS to my Unraid server. I tried luckybackup but I can't get it to work. Backup works flawlessly on my QNAP NAS and my (former) openmediavault NAS Unraid is replacing. This is the resulting command line that shows the least amount of errors: rsync -h --progress --stats -r -tgo -p -l -D --update --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --protect-args <username>@<synologyIP>:/<VolumeX>/<mysynologyfolder>/ /mnt/user/<myunraidfolder> But my backup doesn't start. I'm getting the following error: ERROR: module is write only rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(877) [sender=3.1.2] Thanks in advance.

Apologies, but I don't think I've seen something preventing this question like a sticky thread or something. If I simply didn't see it, I'm sorry. Well as I said my VMs would be for light work like word processing or web browsing. I'd use Plex as well but I live alone. I'd use it mainly at home but could occasionally use it on my phone as well and only for myself. I'd probably use home assistant and pi hole as well. In other news I received my new processor and motherboard this weekend. I put it in my former omv case which has a lot of room for storage. The system posted and I started configuring my unraid system. I had to leave for work this morning with 2 hours of syncing left for building the array. But I think it was the time left for the first HDD, as it reported a size of 4TB while I have 4 4TB HDDs all detected by unraid. I also put a 1TB Samsung m.2 SSD for cache but I haven't found the option yet. I guess I'll have to wait for the array to finish first?

This is exactly what I thought but I thought I’d busted my mobo while installing the new CPU (a 2nd hand i5 8500, replacing my i3 8100). It would only POST with a single stick of RAM. As I bent LGA pins in the past rendering the mobo completely useless I thought it’s what happened. So I went on eBay looking for 1151 mobos but the only cheap ones are 1151 v1, incompatible with my CPUs. As v2 mobos are VERY expensive at the moment I bought a 1700 DDR4 compatible mobo on Amazon along with an i5 13500… only to find out a few hours later that removing the CPU and RAM did the trick, my 1151 mobo is working again, all RAM sticks being recognized. I don’t really regret my purchase but I have a 2nd old chipset mobo I have no use for at the moment. I might keep it to replace my hackintosh’s mobo if it dies before my CPU.

So would an i5 13400 be a better choice? I read somewhere on this forum that hybrid CPUs weren't compatible with unraid but the thread was several years old. Is it fixed now?

OH wow! 😳 😅 Oh OK I will probably turn the tables though with unraid becoming my main NAS and my Synology NAS becoming a backup... If it works well with an i5. I'd probably use it anyway. I now see the reason why everyone seems to use an i7 i9 or Xeon whenever I hear about unraid. I'd just run 1 VM at a time with Pi hole, Plex media server and home assistant in the background. If I don't keep Pi hole as it is on my raspberry pi 3. I'm sorry I didn't understand that sentence. Edit: never mind I realized just now that you didn't say you spend too much TIME on your cpu.

OK thanks for the clarification I thought the array would count as a single drive. I'll have to see how it's done by myself.

I know all of this but thanks anyways. I guess I watched a bad YouTube video that "explained" all of this badly and created confusion. What I gathered from it was that Unraid needed an extra volume for parity other than a raid 5 array in any other NAS system which I found weird. So thanks for clearing the confusion that built up without any reason. I used to work in IT but only on Windows client systems. All I know about Linux, NASes or macOS I learned by myself and still consider myself a newbie on Linux even if I'm not afraid of using command line.

OK I was worried for a moment lol. Last question: Do I need a GPU in the system if I choose a non-F i5? I would be using the desktop VMs for basic office work at home so I don't see the point of a graphics card if I can use the CPU's integrated graphics. Except if unraid requires it of course! I don't really game anyway besides I have the desktop in my room for that if I wanted to.

No, one desktop OS at a time along with Unraid itself. I’d close any one running before starting another. That’s why I didn’t understand the core count you made in a previous post.

Ok thanks for clearing that up!

OK That sounds very expensive. I'd rather keep my very old openmediavault PC and build a new PC for my office room. I might try Unraid's trial period though. Thanks anyway. I know that, I just read somewhere that you need an extra parity drive in unraid. I didn't understand if that was that. Thanks for clearing that up !

Thanks for the reply. OK I'd like to run Windows 11 for sure (for basic tasks like word processing, web surfing, video playback), maybe macOS (for the same tasks as Windows, until Apple stops supporting Intel systems). I'd run the VMs one at a time I think. I have 3 docker/portainer containers : Plex media server (I only have media up to 1080p, My TV is 4K but I'd rather play the few UHD Blu-rays I own from the disks themselves in my XBox One X), homeassistant and maybe pi-hole (which is currently running on a raspberry Pi 3). I know it won't be like a regular system but I thought you could build different raid arrays/shares, like in omv. Also I didn't mean installing the OSes like in any other computer. I know in virtualbox and other virtualization software VMs consist of one or few files. I was just wondering how unraid users store them. I read somewhere that the parity drive must be at least as big as the biggest data drive in the system. I currently have a raid 5 of 8 TB consisting of 3 4 TB drives. If I understand correctly in unraid I'd need a 4th 4 TB drive for parity?

Thanks for the reply. What would you recommend? At the moment I'm using docker on omv for plex media server and homeassistant. And I might as well use it for pi hole which i'm currently running on a raspberry pi 3. Also regarding drives, my data is currently on a raid 5 array of 3 4 TB HDDs. If I understand correctly I need a 4th array drive or is it the one already included in my raid 5?

Hi. I'm planning to build an unraid system to replace my very old PC running openmediavault which acts as a backup of my synology NAS. I'd also like to run VMs. I'm sure of using Windows 11 and maybe Ubuntu and macOS (for which I already found a tutorial). I have a spare i5 8500 but I have to find a 1151 motherboard and since they're very expensive on my country's eBay I thought I might as well buy a more recent motherboard and CPU. I'm just not sure if an i5 10400F or the spare 8400 I already have if I go the 1151 route would be good enough since I'm new to both unraid and virtualizing. Thanks in advance.