Mahakala

Thanks for the response. At this time I only plan on adding a parity drive If i can find a good deal. Can I add one at a later date? I do plan on picking up an additional drive between 12-18tb and using that for my Plex media and using the 4tb drives for my personal files. 1 4tb drive for my files and 1 used as a backup. Is the loss of 2 SATA connectors a feature of Unraid? I have had 6 drives including an SSD in previous setups with multiple 2tb drives and an SSD

Hi everyone, glad to be here. Looking at building an unraid NAS for home use to achieve the following. I'm already running everything below on Windows 10 using SMB shares but I would like to upgrade my PC and use my existing hardware, if possible, to build a NAS. In some cases I'am unsure if my requirements can be met but I would love for the community to provide some insight. I have my requirements are below. 1. Plex media server. I have paid for plex pass 2. Access and share my personal files over my home network. Specifiaclly Windows documents via office 2021, pictures, music. Access my music via Sonos 3. Automatically backup these files 4. Backup 18TB plex media files and create a backup. 5. Cloud Access. Be able to access my personal files from my phone or laptop if I'm away. 6. Cloud access. Sync files on my android phone to my cloud and have them backup automatically. 7. It would like to setup a Windows VM to continue using Office 2021 8. I have a 1TB Samsung SSD drive that I can repurpose, will that be efficient? I have the following hardware which I can repurpose. Not sure if this hardware is useful for the applications I mentioned above or if I need to buy new hardware all together. Of course If i can use what I already have it would be preferred. CPU AMD ATHLON 2 X4 640 Intel i5 4690K LGA1150 Motherboard GIGABYTE 870A-USB3 Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 RAM G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL7D-4GBXM DDR3 1600MHz CL7 4GB (2GBx2) 2x8 - 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Pro Series SSD OCZ AGILITY 3 60GB Samsung 860 EVO 1TB PSU OCZ MODXSTREAM PRO 500W Corsair TX 650W GPU Evga Superclocked Geforce GTX 1050Ti HDD - Total 12TB. 2 x 4TB Western Digital 4TB WD Blue PC Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD40EZRZ 1 x 4TB Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache Thanks in advance for the tips and advice.