Hi all,
Thought I'd better introduce myself after lurking around here for the past few days, and download my thoughts on what I plan to do with unraid!
I'm still trying to find the time to build and use unraid (due to a baby and the run up to xmas. In the meantime I'm trying to see if it's up to the task of replacing my QNAP TS-110 NAS which uses a single 1TB WD green drive.
Currently the QNAP is used for:
Storage of movies, TV shows, music, photos, recorded video clips, documents
Streaming of most of the above
Slideshow for photos
Storage of software installers, ISOs
Virus scanner
Torrent client
Personal blog (not currently updated)
All of this is backed-up via esata to an ICYBOX disk enclosure to an identical 1TB WD green drive.
Planned destination Unraid server:
Lian Li PC-B25B full tower case
i5-4440
MSI H87M-E33 micro ATX board with 4K HDMI, DVI
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB
Sapphire R7 250 2GB with boost, HDMI, 2x DVI
1 1TB WD green drive, several 250GB Seagate drives, a 250GB Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive, OCZ Core II 60GB SSD, OCZ Agility
1 Windows 10 VM, 1 Linux MINT VM (or other Steam-capable 'nix OS)
What are everyones thoughts - can I migrate everything I use from the QNAP to the unraid, plus run 2 VMs (albeit not at the same time until I replace the board with dual PCIE x16)??
Thanks