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Hmm, been sol long since I had set it up I dont remember, but that would make sense. Is UnRAID set by default not to spin all the time?

Ah, I should have said its slower at opening a movie to TV show than was my old FreeNAS box. When I open video files using VLC I have noticed that it takes 2 or 3 times longer to start playing the file.

I hope this is the right place for this question. I had an old FreeNAS server that was just used for serving movies and shows to Plex and VLC on Fire Sticks around the house. I built a new server and went with UnRAID. It also is just for Plex and VLC. However I notice that UnRAID is a good bit slower to load than my old FreeNAS box. Is there any settings that I can change? Also, I have UnRAIS Basic, does a cashe drive count against the number of supported drives? Model:Custom M/B:Supermicro X8DT6 Version 1234567890 - s/n: VM1AS63505 BIOS:American Megatrends Inc. Version 2.0b. Dated: 08/30/2011 CPU:Intel® Xeon® CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz HVM:Enabled IOMMU:Enabled Cache:384 KiB, 1536 KiB, 12 MB, 384 KiB, 1536 KiB, 12 MB Memory:64 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECC (max. installable capacity 384 GiB) Network:bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 Kernel:Linux 5.19.17-Unraid x86_64 OpenSSL:1.1.1s

I am switching from FreeNAS to UnRaid, mainly for the easy addition of more drives. All this will be is a Plex server that serves files to computers and smart TV's. No trans-coding at all. But I have 2 questions. Will UnRaid Work with a 2.5GB NIC and should I add an SSD for a cashe drive and if so, how large a drive? Below is my system specs. Thanks for any help you can offer. Case: Fractal Design Arc Mini-ATX PSU: Corsair CX Modular 600 watts Motherboard: Asus P8H67-M LE socket 1155 with 6x SATA ports CPU: i5 2500k GPU: Intel HD 3000 Integrated RAM: 16GB DDR3 HDD: 4x4TB enterprise class 7200 RPM drives

Can unraid be setup temporarily on virtual box? I dont want to leave it there, I want to be able to practice setting it and plex up before putting it on my server. Thanks.

Any issue with using standard consumer level hard drives? What turned me off the most about FreeNAS was its demand that everything be server level. I do have 1 Enterprise class drive, should it be the parity drive?

After looking at unRaid, FreeNAS and NAS4Free, I finally decided to go with unRaid for my media server. I like the idea of easily being able to add new hard drives at any time. Below is a list of parts that I already have and what I want to do with them, hoping that what I have will do the job. Right now I am thinking unRaid with Plex. Any suggestions or tips are welcome. I am wanting to build a Media Server. It wont be doing any transcoding or video conversion. I also want to be able to watch the videos from any PC in the house as well as a Ruku and a couple of WD Live TV set top boxes. Case: Fractal Design Arc Mini-ATX PSU: Corsair CX Modular 600 watts Motherboard: Asus P8H67-M LE socket 1155 with 6x SATA ports CPU: i3 2120 3.3 GHz with stock cooling GPU: Built into the i3/MB RAM: 8GB DDR3 HDD: 6x 2TB drives 1 is an Enterprise class drive, the other 5 are standard 7200 RPM drives.