Hi! I'm relatively new to unRAID but have previously played around with it on my main PC. Now I want to upgrade my current HTPC/NAS/TV server to use with unRAID instead of Windows 10 for better performance and stability.
Current hardware:
Processor:Intel E5200 2.50 GHz
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H(mATX)
RAM: 8GB DDR2
GPU: Geforce GT 610
HDD: 2x 3TB WD Green
SSD: INTEL 535 Series 120GB
Tv tuner 1:FireDTV-C
TV tuner 2: PCTV Triplestick DVB-T2
Case: Fractal Design Arc Mini R2(mATX)
PSU: Corsair VX450W
As I mentioned before I'm running Windows 10 on this system with Kodi as media center, StableBit DivePool for storage pooling, DvbLink to serve Tv channels to local machine and bedroom kodi client, Deluge torrent client, Sonarr and CouchPotato.
Everything is actually working okey on this old hardware but things tend to get a bit slow at times and also some crashing especially the TV software. Thats is why I want to upgrade the hardware and use almost the same software under unRAID. Hopefully this will make things snappier, more stable and also allow me to do maintenance without disturbing someone who is watching TV or movies on the main machine.
I want to have 2 WMs, one for Kodi OpenELEC and one for Windows 10 to run DvbLink and then the rest of the software I'll just run with docker.
Would like to keep things at as low cost as possible but I'm thinking I need to upgrade the motherboard, cpu and ram atleast. The gpu can be used to passthrough to the Kodi VM right? I see many unRAID users buying used supermicro motherboards with xeon cpus maybe this could be an option if it can fit in my current case?
Any advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!