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as for unresponsive keyboard. I will have 2 virtual disks. one unencrypted for ubuntu and the other will be my backup target and i will encrypt that one. that should take care of keyboard issue. after os boot up i will login and unlock data disk manually.

ok. Thanks for reply's. I'm only going to use it as a file backup location so speed is not important. just so long as it will run stable, most likely ubuntu, and be secure against physical theft. I back up my dads and mother in laws pc along with a few laptops to my file server remotely so i want it secure. I think i will give it a try this week with Ubuntu and see what happens, unless anybody has any better solutions. Thanks

I am currently looking to move away from freenas and unraid seems like a logical choice. More on the "why's" in a minute. My main concern is the lack of encryption for unraid, so my question is.... can i install say Ubuntu,Windows, FreeBSD, Etc in a VM withing unraid, then have the guest OS encrypt the virtual disk as needed to make it secure ? the bulk of my files are Large Video and audio files streamed via Plex and don't need to be encrypted. But I also run UrBackup server and have several pc's including a few that are offsite backup to it. So encryption is a must since the server is located in my house and theft is always a possibility. Am I on the right track here or will I lose the virtual disk in the event the bare metal disk fails? or can the bare metal disk containing the virtual disk be part of am array? Am i way off here or is there a better way ? I know some people do crazy and dumb stuff with there NAS units and I am not one of them. so please no attacks, just wanting to know if this will work reliably and securely without jumping through hoops, hacking, rigging, patching or letting the smoke out. thanks Now for the reasons for wanting to switch. 1. freenas zfs is resource hungry. 2. can't grow pools 2. I have had multiple disk start to show bad sectors within a few months of purchase. including a new HGST 6Tb Nas disk. ( lost 3 others in a year. none were more than 18 months old) This creates red flags in the system and disk totally fails soon after. Failures were not motherboard related because i tried a new system with same results. 3. I have s supply of WD enteprise drives that are no more than 2 years old that were removed from an Iscsi tower for a security camera system. so this will get me a running system then i can replace them with larger when the time comes. current freenas setup. MSI 970a-g46 4.0 Ghz 8 core amd 16Gb ram. and a load of disks. Im looking to put unraid on a dell T1700 that i obtained free ( the perks of being a CCTV installer ) CPU. Intel Core i7 (4th Gen) 4770 / 3.4 GHz. Max Turbo Speed. 3.9 GHz. Quad-Core. Intel C226. 4GB non-ecc ( will soon replace with 16Gb Ecc ) thinking about 6TB parity disk (just because thats what I have) 2 - 1Tb enteprise drives (more freebies) for cache various size data disks for now. will replace one by one