wildduck

Thanks for the advice to copy the license file. That was an important one 👍

After evaluating and purchasing Unraid on a small & old computer, I want to start all over on a new machine. No data or settings needs to be transfered - I want to start from scratch. Question: Do I just need to plug in the USB drive into the new machine, or do should I / need to rebuild the USB to get rid of the old settings?

Hi everyone, I’m an already aged software developer (60) and new to Unraid and the forum. Although I have read a lot in this forum and elsewhere, I’m still - maybe even more - confused about the initial setup for the home server I have in mind. As of today, I have a historic, super loud, super-slow, 4-Bay QNAP NAS used for photo & music storage only, no apps … I hate this machine, really! For backups of my MacBook and MacMini I use Time Machine, CCC (https://bombich.com) various usb 2.5 USB HDD and SSD drives and iCloud (2TB). But the main purpose for the home server initiative are my software development purposes, mainly for data processing, analytics & AI using Python, C and Rust. As of today all happens on my 24GB RAM, 1 TB MacBook. Some tasks, esp. AI model training and (stress) testing, can take up to several hours, rarely days and are required on a regular basis. I use containers in my CI/CD pipelines. I recently stumbled over Unraid, installed it on an old ThinkCentre M90 Nano … and wow that seems to THE perspective for the setup I have in mind. Only a single server tower case will fit in to my setup, so that’s given. Here’s what I have and need: Existing Hardware: - A case that fits perfect in the only available spot underneath my desk. It is quite roomy, can take am eATX Mainboard and 4x 2.5, 2x 3.5 drives internally. - 10Gb switch for my home-office, a 10Gb connector for each my MacBook and the MacMini. - an older 1x NVidia TITAN RTX GPU - …anything else needs to be purchase. Use Cases (Basic): - Access to, backup and management of all my private files. Mainly, photos and documents, currently 600GB, perspectively never more than 2 TB - I’m already an older guy, so most of my photos have already been shot . I tested and intend to use PhotoPrism and Paperless-ngx for that purpose. - Backups of my Mac computers using Time Machine. - Individual Backups from/to various locations using CCC and Pyhthon scripts. Use Cases (Work): - Deploying, orchestrating and running docker containers, ideally remotely from my Mac, via a deployments script. IS THIS POSSIBLE WITH UNRAID? e.g.: build anything on the Mac, push it with rsync to the server, run a script to spin everything up? - Some containers (normally just 1, but sometimes also 2) need to access the GPU. Is this possible that containers can access and share the GPU? Use Case (for fun only - not a must, but nice to have): - Run a Windows VM to play racing games using my Fanatec Hardware and monitor, all plugged directly into the server. Intended setup: - AMD 9000 CPU 8 cores, 16 threads, air-cooled - Mainboard with 4x PCie M.2 SSD slots - 96 or 128GB RAM - up to 4x M.2 SSD - up to 4x 2.5 SATA SSD - up 2x 3.5 HDD Requirements: - I need +/- 4TB for all data for all private, professional and fun purposes - as of today it‘s 1.6 TB all together. - My dev containers need as-fast-as-possible disk access to max. 2TB of data. The tasks are quite read- and write heavy, memory-intense (the more the better) and would benefit dramatically from the GPU - as of today it’s 600 GB data all together, max 1TB. - My photos and documents need to be as-save-as-possible, performance is not so important, I assume. - I want to run +/- 5 containers from the Unraid store. - I want to 1 VM with Windows 11 utilizing the GPU for gaming, with a fast single (logical) disk. - I want local /internal backup of documents and photos as files/folders (600 GB). These files need be synced to iCloud (or other). Photos need to by synced with AWS (Amazon prime). - When not needed for dev and data science tasks, the systems should be as quite as possible - I hate HDD noise. Now to my questions and confusion… - How many disks do I need and how should I size and organize them? - Should I just put 4x 4TB M2 SSD into the motherboard, setup a single array, some shares and I‘m already done? - …or should I or need to somehow physically separate private files storage (1.5 TB), from container storage, from analytical data, from VM disk (500GB)? If so, how? - Should I add 2x 12TB HDDs for internal (nightly) backup or should I go for 2.5 SSDs, costs aside? - Do I still need a cache, if anything is on M2 SSDs? Many thanks in advance for tips and recommendations…