WannabeMKII

Thanks for the feedback and comments guys, appreciated. I think I've an old laptop somewhere, but not sure on the spec etc, but hopefully should be OK. However, I've watched lots of videos, so hopefully covered most in that. I've also thought about keeping the server as is and putting unraid on the ProLiant instead of XPEnology... Too much to think about... I've been looking a while and my only potential reason for a Windows VM is for things I'm unable to run in a docker. For example, I've not seen a Crashplan PROe docker or anything to sync Google Drive, unless I've missed it? I've checked the BIOS today and I have an option for 'Virtualisation Technology'. Would that be sufficient? In that case, would I benefit from more RAM? However, if I can run everything in dockers, I hopefully won't need a Windows VM...? On a slightly different note, how and where would nzbtomedia run? Would that run in / on the nzbget docker?

I'm a long time lurker, but due to a few machine issues, I'm toying with the idea of moving across from a Windows 7 and a separate NAS, to one solution, unraid. I'm excited by the idea of changing, but also apprehensive, as I don't have a lot of spare time. I just want to set something up and let it run. My situation is this; Hardware Server / PC - Dell T110 Tower Server Intel Xeon E3-1220v2 3.1GHz with 8GB ECC RAM. Windows 7 on 120GB SSD, then 1x2TB HDD and 2x500GB HDD. All individual drives and between them holding media, files etc and backed up to the following NAS & Crashplan... NAS - HP ProLiant G7 MicroServer with 4GB RAM. Running XPEnology and 3x4TB HDD's in Synology SHR. This is purely a backup NAS for my machine, other PC's in the house, Apple Time Machine etc. Nothing is served from it. So I'm running 2 machines, whereas, I'm thinking of running unraid on the Dell and moving the ProLiant on. XPEnology is running great on the ProLiant (489 days uptime...), but it makes me nervous for running updates etc. Software - All Dell Plex (Plex Pass user) - I share to a couple of family members nzbget & nzbtomedia (and a few other extensions) Couchpotato Sonarr Crashplan PROe Plexconnect NZBHydra PlexPY On the NAS, I also use Google Drive Sync. So I guess my question is, what I currently do across 2 machines, can I replace with 1 unraid machine? I assume unraid just sits and runs and runs like the NAS and I install most of the software in Dockers? Then if there's something not available in Docker, I could run a Windows VM? Apologies for such a long opening post, but this forum seems a great place to start with my opening questions and I'm sure I'll have more. But at this stage, I wanted to get initial feedback on if unraid will support my requirements. I guess the only other thing to consider is that I'm familiar with Windows, but not other OS's so much, but I am a fast learner... Thanks all and looking forward to feedback.