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Hi! The machine I have is for the server already deploy and its not to change. I want to build a new unraid server to have 3 VM, 2 workstation for office, ms project, our accountant software and not much more. For the 3rd workstation, its to use Autodesk Revit and Autocad for some projects that I do. For these project I was thinking to buy Ryzen Threadripper (because of PCI lanes) 1900x or 1920x, depends on how much cores I need.

Hi there! Just to said that the server is running for a few months now, without any problems! We have some difficults with the VPN configuration, but nothing to do with the unraid, but since that, its up and running with zero problems! Im very satisfied with unraid and it was much cheaper than an VMWare solution

Hi there! My unraid server is working for a few months now and we are really impresse. Zero problems so far =D Meanwhile we made some changes to the machine: MOBO – TYAN S7012 3.0 CPU – 2 x INTEL XEON E5620 RAM – 4 x 8Gb DDR3 ECC (we dont need all those memory) PSU – EVGA Supernova 750P2 80+Platinum DRIVES - 4 x 4Tb and 1 x 1,5Tb (2 for parity and 3 for unraid storage share) plus 2 x 2tb in Raid 1 for VM Cache - Sansung 850EVO 120gb + Sandisk 120Gb + Kingston 120 Gb CASE - PCI Case IPC-C4FB-XP with 2 x IcyBox Flexcage MB975SP-B and 2 x IcyBox ExpressCage MB326SP-B for 10 x 3.5 drives and 12 x 2.5 drives Hot Swappable We are so happy with unraid that we are thinking to build another one (in another office) to replace the two workstation that we have there, plus sync with the first server. The idea is to have 2 VM workstation passthrough SSD and graphic card and sync some of the shares of the first unraid server for fast read/right (because is another site connect with VPN) What's your opinion?

Hi! I have 2 120gb SSD but they are different brands, for cache redundancy I should use the same model right?

Hi! Im a new user of unraid. My intention was to virtualize my company server, but after a few difficulties with VMWare and proxmox I tried Unraid and it was so easy to use that I choose to stay with Unraid. Hope not to regret... My initial build was from a 10+ years machine with Tyan S7012 motherboard with 2 Intel Xeon E5620, 2 Sata Seagate 160gb drives and 2 Sata Seagate 1Tb drives. This machine was bought second hand like 2/3 years ago to upgrade our server and the only thing we add was the 2 1tb drives. For security reasons we decide to virtualize the system, thats why we try VMWare, Proxmox, etc, but we have difficulties and the price for support and the "good" features, was to much for our company. We try unraid, we love it, super easy to configure, super fast to "deploy". So we decide to stay with that and we bought the licence. We decide that for the Virtualization of the server we should have an SSD passthrough and since the unraid can be a NAS we decided that we should use the 1tb drives for storage on unraid and get some more for partiy, so lets upgrade the server and the final machine was: MOBO – TYAN S7012 3.0 CPU – 2 x INTEL XEON E5620 RAM – 6 x 8Gb DDR3 ECC PSU – EVGA Supernova 750P2 80+Platinum DRIVES - 5 x 1Tb (2 for parity and 3 for storage) Cache - Sansung 850EVO 120gb CASE - Doesnt have... For the VM server 1 SSD Kingston A400 120gb for the OS and the 2 160gb drives for DATA BACKUP We also upgrade the server OS from Windows Server 2003 to 2016. For now its working just fine...

Hi. The innitial idea was to use VMware but they will left support the E5620 CPU and the price was a little to much. We are a small accoutant company and we had, until a few weeks ago, the windows server 2003 without any redundance (with the exception of the 2 drives 160gb in raid 1 with the data backup). What we intended is to have some redundancy and backup, just in case. Our idea is to have some clone or snapshot in order to rebuild everything very quicly, if needed. About the support we are accustomed to have none, because as a small company we usualy dont have the money need for the covenant that IT company's charge. The entire network infrastrure was build and configured by us, not that we really understand what we are doing, but youtube helps a lot. For now the server is working, Im just a little affraid that something goes wrong. The OS drive, was passthrough and the OS installed with NTFS, so if I use this drive directly it shoud work, right? Whats the best way to clone the drive?

Hi, I recently aquire unraid to virtualize my server in order to give it another level of security (or at least is that the idea). I have a tyan S7012 with two intel xeon E5620 and 48gb RAM DDR3 ECC, and LSI00244-9201-16i For my VM server I have passthrough 8 cpu threads (4 of each real cpu), 12Gb of RAM (expandable until 16gb), passthrough Kingston A400 120Gb SDD for the OS drive and two Seagate 160gb in windows RAID 1 for the backup of the accountant data. I have windows server 2016. For "NAS" I have 5 1tb drives with 2 parity drives and Samsung 850EVO 120gb SSD for cache. The idea is if the server die I can restore the VM quicly than if was not virtualized. The only thing Im affraid is the OS drive doenst have redundancy. I want your opinion about my server and what do you think I should do in order to make it more secure and failer prove. How can I make clones/snapshots of the OS drive automatecly? If I did something wrong please tell me.