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Nice! So how you like this combo? What you using it for? I am new to unRAID and switching from FreeNAS. I want to have setup kinda the same to be our Plex Media server, store media and also get all it as automatic as I can.

Did you get it running? I am getting same cpu and motherboard in next few days.

Thanks. I have been messing if CA. Great stuff! Just haven’t been able to figure out how make sure dockers, appdata and docker.img live in SSD.

Well I ended up buying the e3-1275 v5 and Asus server motherboard. Also 32gb ecc ram and 2 Samsung evo 850 500gb SSDs. I wanted to rebuild server always so went ahead and pulled the trigger. So copying data off the FreeNAS server now. Will be few days. Ouch. So when parts come should be ready to start setting up unRAID. So with these new SSD drives I am guessing I should use one for cache and other for dockers? If so is there a guide for setting up dockers for SSD? I am not sure how you setup unRAID to know where stuff should be. Also thought read the appdata should be on SSD? If so if it dies then would lose dockers and configs? Guessing way to back that up. Also forgot I have an PCIE to M.2 Adapter with Samsung EVO 850 500gb NVMe think will add to server. If did what should this be? Dockers? Cache?

So I installed binhex deluge vpn yesterday. All seems fine. However when I use the plugins Extractor, Blocklist and Label they will disappear when docker it stopped and restarted. So if reboot server or restart it for some reason.

Thanks for all the great advice guys! So sigs was off so that’s fixed now. Anyways I would like to update server. It seems the motherboard and cpu I have are limiting. When playing direct play and maybe a stream or 2 to iPhones outside the house get issues. My test rig with i5 4590 handles it much better. Just little ITX build I use for testing stuff. So would going to Xeon E3-1275v6 (Kaby Lake?) help my preformace much? I know would need invest $ since would need motherboard, cpu and ram. Should I keep server grade and use ECC ram? Not cheap in DDR4. Fogot to say I have 2 LSI SAS cards would move and dual port 10gbe card.

I believe the CPU is version 1. I have an Intel S1200BTL motherboard.

The plan was to tear down the FreeNAS server and reuse what I can. However maybe hardware then I should just reuse it for unRAID build. We have a pretty large family here so storage space is needed for Movies and TV shows which is why all the drives. I have a 4K projector Home Theater with Dolby Atmos 7.2.4. So a lot of our movies tend to be Blu Ray sized and now more 4K so need a lot of space for files. I was planning on replacing the 120gb SSDs with Samsung EVO 950 500gb anyways so maybe I should get those. Maybe the best thing would be update some parts in current server ie SSDs and switch to unRAID? I would like to save $$. I could even maybe replace the 2TB drives with 3TB to get more storage. Knowing these and if just get new SSDs and replace few drives what would be best way to setup? All the spinning drives in one array with 2 parity drives? How do I force Dockers etc to be on SSD? Should one 500gb be Dockers etc and other for cache? Should I keep the other (2) 120gb in system and maybe use the 500gb and (2) 120gb for cache?

I have used FreeNAS for few years now but thinking about switching over to unRAID. I have few reasons but 2 are the fact can add to array and docker support. Just seems better for running media programs. My current FreeNAS server is running on 11.1-U1. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31275 @ 3.40GHz MEMORY: 32gb DDR2 ECC STORAGE: (12) 3tb Hard Drives, (4) 2tb Hard Drives, (2) 120gb SSDs (jails mirrored) CASE: Silverstone Tek 3U 16-Bay 3.5-Inch Hot-Swap Rackmount Storage Server Chassis Cases RM316 PSU: FSP Group 700W PMBus V1.2 ATX Power Supply Single 2U Size 80 Plus Platinum Certified for Rack Mount Case (FSP700-80WEPB) USB Boot: (2) SanDisk Ultra Fix 32gb in mirrored config I use server for all our Home Media storage: Movies, TV Shows, Music and Photos. I don't normally storage data per se on this server. I do have QNAP NAS I use for that most of the time. The server runs in jail on the SSDs Plex Server, Plexpy, Sabnzbd, Transmission, Sickrage and CouchPotato to make server pretty automated for house as I can. I also have a HDHOMERUN Extended on network show can watch/record some Live TV. As of late with more and more 4K content showing up been having some issues with playback on some devices. Our 2 main clients are Shield TVs. The wife and kids so like to access Plex outside the house which is one reason I switched from Kodi to Plex last year. So I am looking for some hardware advice for new server thinking about. Also what would be BEST way to setup unRAID on this. I was thinking 2 Parity drives and using SSD or 2 for Dockers etc. Looking at moving to 2011 Socket motherboard with (2) E5-2670 CPUs and 128gb DDR3 ECC ram. But only to all suggestions here. I would reuse all drives, case and PSU. Thinking maybe getting (2) Samsung 950 EVO 500gb SSDs for this. Please chime in. I am looking purchasing parts ASAP so really could use input.

I just saw those videos. Was trying to figure out what might be best order to watch time.

Hello, I have been using FreeNAS for my NAS for sometime now. However I am wanting to try out unraid and see how I like it. My FreeNAS media server is setup to store/share all my media ie: Movies and TV Shows. I have Plex server installed, sabnzbd, sickrage, couchpotato, transmission and few other things all running on it. So I have a PC here I am not using at the moment and thought I would install unraid on it for testing. The installing of unraid is easy enough but I am wanting to know if there are some good guides etc to help me install all the other things I have on my FreeNAS server. I am wanting to get it working about the same way and be as completely automatic as I can.

Hello all, I have a friend who told me to look into switching. I have been using FreeNAS 9.3.x for awhile but looking into maybe changing. I have an Intel S1200BTL server board with 32gb ram. I have 2 IBM M1015 cards installed flashed in IT mode. With ZFS right now I have to pools. tank and tank2 Tank is 8x 3tb drives in RAID2Z Tank2 is 4x 2tb drives in RAID1Z. My main issue is I have 2 jails that automate my media files. In one jail is sabnzbd, sickrage, couchpotatoe and transmission. The other is MySQL for my Kodi database. I want to keep this simple to use. I have been told can do this with UnRAID but wanted to ask if true and how hard? I also use the nzbToMedia scripts to handle my downloaded media.