jboss10

Hello - I've spent the better part of the last week gathering information on my intended migration from my Windows-based Plex server over to Unraid. I think I've watched enough YouTube videos and read enough forum topics to where I feel comfortable moving forward. Current Windows setup: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/763ZFZ 1TB SSD = Good Health (97%) almost 50K HRS (current Windows OS) 18TB WD Drive - just realized it's been sitting in my server unused and has ~19K HRs (no reads/writes) 8TB WD (was a shucked drive - think it's a white label) = Good Health and ~48K HRs I've been running this setup for a long time - I used to actually just use this rig as my machine PC with Plex until I moved it into the basement. Just upgraded it to the i7-7700 a few months and see no reason with changing the main parts. Going forward I was planning on: Upgrade to 40GB of RAM (add in another 2x16GB) (can use this for Plex transcoding?) Going to buy another refurbished 18TB drive (WD Ultrastar) Buy another 1/2TB SSD drive for Cache and use existing 1TB SDD drive for cache (won't do any mirroring on the Cache pool) Use this rig for Docker, maybe a VM, my Home Assistant setup, and of course Plex (for now) Setting up Unraid: Use the new WD Red 18TB as my parity My 8TB drive is just about full; will need to transfer to the refurbished 18TB drive Format/add in the 8TB drive once its fully transferred I just looked at the spec sheet of my board and realized I will lose 1 SATA port (in AHCI SATA mode) if I decide to use the onboard M.2 slot for cache. Here is the link in case anyone wants to prove me wrong: https://www.manua.ls/gigabyte/ga-z170m-d3h/manual?p=17 At the end of the day, I either lose a SATA slot or abandon the M.2 slot (which will cost me more money anyways). Not sure if the M.2 slot is that necessary. Intended outcome: 18TB parity 18TB array 8TB array <Expansion> 1 TB cache 1 or 2TB cache I'm still a bit fuzzy on how to configure the cache drives for Plex, Docker, and VMs but this post will at least give the community who reads this some insight into my build. Much appreciated and if anyone has any other tips or ideas for the build - fire away! Thank you.