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- Do you mean not recommended for Virtulization because of low RAM or do you see any other issues? -Thing with hardware is that where i live its very hard to get server grade hardware and ever desktop based H/w is far more expensive then what you'd pay for the same in UK/US. That is why i tried to choose the best i could after looking around everywhere. For exampale i am paying around $180-200 for WD 4TB Greens and that too only one Retailer i know has it in stock.

thanks a lot, it cleared up a lot of confusion. One question, I read somewhere that unRaid for optimum performance needs around 1Gb ram per TB, is that true? Can you comment on my NAS config i posted, is there somethings i can change or do you have better suggestions for improvment? While i was over at another OS forum, people recommended me to get a Intel Gbit NIC and not use the on-board realtek, does this seem to be the case with un-Raid too?

Hello, After a lot of carefull consideration and looking around i decided to take the leap and go for unRaid on my server. My parts are about to arrive in a weeks time. I have decided to go for these: Gigabyte H87M D3H (yes, i looked into the HPA issue but cant find any users facing problem with this board) 2 x 4GB Gskills DDR3 1333 Intel G3240 3.1GHZ 53W TDP Fractal Design Node 804 Corsair CS550 550W SMPS 3 x 4TB + 4 x 2TB (1x 4TB for parity) Now i do have a few questions, though most are answered in the videos linked on the forums but i still am confused. 1) Do i need to use a cache drive (SSD) ? Or is it needed only when there are a lot of HDD's ? 2) If i make a folder say 'Movies' and dump all my movies into it, can i dump more data into single folder then the size of a HDD? What i mean is that if my biggest drive is a 4TB can my movies folder be say 5TB? In this case my data will get written on multiple drives? 3) The above condition where which data is written to which drive is decided by the parity drive? 4) Can someone link to to material/guides regarding plugins and add-ons that can be installed on the unRaid server? 5) If a drive fails do we need to make some changes to let the unRaid server know we shall be replacing the drive or just replace the drive? 6) Can a parity drive be replaced by a larger size drive and later the old parity drive can be used as a data drive? Thanks