gooner_47

I've repurposed an old machine with a loud GPU fan for my unraid box. I tried removing the graphics card completely, but I think that caused the machine not to boot (it was hard to tell without being able to see a monitor!) as it never connected to the network. As I will be using the machine headless, it is safe/wise to unplug the GPU fan to quieten the machine somewhat? Presumably if there is no output device attached then the card will not be doing any work so will not get that hot? Or should I just buy a passive graphics card - if so anyone have any suggestions for cheapest one possible?

Just checking on the current status of preclear. I've seen plenty of threads about it but some quite old and mentioning gfjardim has to fix up the plugin before it can be used. What's the situation at the moment, am I safe to use the plugin with the latest version of unraid, or should I just use a script? If so, which one is best and are there step by step instructions for how to do this? Many thanks, Luke

Thanks for the replies. Certainly not expecting blistering performance! Then again, for a NAS I don’t think that matters too much. Understood about drive health, I will boot back up into Windows and run the WD diagnostic tool on it. While I’m in there I’ll use the Samsung tool to check the SSD health too. I understood about the parity drive, didn’t phrase it very well. Thank you for double checking this with me. The only reason I mentioned a 14TB drive is to allow the possibility of adding drives of up to 14TB in the future. Although if I were to start with a 6TB parity drive, and decide at some point in the future I want to start using larger hard drives - is it possible to upgrade it? “any drive that will be introduced into an unraid array will be wiped and or formatted before the array can use it” Fairly certain I understand you on this, but just want to be absolutely sure... are you saying when I tell unRAID to use the ssd as a cache drive, it will wipe/format it for me? i.e. i don’t need to do any preparation before adding it? thsnks again

Hi all, I have an old machine which I no longer have a use for, would like to repurpose it as a NAS, media server, and usenet download box. Been reading a lot about the best OS to use, and keep coming back to unRAID. Just had a few general questions before I jump in fully... The spec of the (very old!) machine is a Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4GHz, 6 GB RAM. Will unRAID run fine on this hardware? I will want to stream 4K movies over the network, but they'll be to an Apple TV 4K - so no transcoding required. I have an old WD green 6TB. Is this going to be suitable for either a data or parity disk? I know it's not a NAS specific drive (e.g. WD red), but does this matter to unRAID? I know the parity drive has to be equal to or bigger than all the rest of the drives... should I just bite the bullet and get a 14TB drive for this purpose - increasing my options for expansion in future? Or is this something which can be upgraded easily in future? I have an old Samsung 840 Evo 250GB which I was going to use as a cache disk. At the moment it has a Windows installation on it. Do I need to wipe/prepare this drive before I begin to use it with unRAID? Or will the OS format this for me? Can I use the box as a Time Machine target for backing up my Macbook Pro? Is it possible to automate uploading the entire contents of the array to a cloud service for backup purposes? That's all I can think of right now! Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can give.