Hello everyone.
I am new here. And after careful consideration unraid seems to be what I am looking for.
Needs:
Storage of a lot of my own video files(and some pictures), no need for fast access. Just as a backup from local workstation ~atm 3 tb.
~400gb - 1tb of documents of various kinds that I will need access to from wherever and whatever.
Backup of some local folders, rsync or similar. Something like that for my phone as well would be nice.
Future fun projects and stuff.
A couple of VM:s, like a wiki.js, forums etc. Nothing super heavy but I will need a processor with some cores and ram enough to grow.
I am considering a matx computer with room for 2 3.5 drives so I can run raid 1, perhaps a usb hdd that runs backup to it for some redundancy. But should I go with regular atx so I can fit more HDDs later? Probably...
Any good chassi suggestions?
2x6tb seagate ironwolf should be fine for now.
An m2 drive for VMs/cache, 250gb samsung 860evo any good?
Do I need ecc ram? Or can I manage without? 16gb enough to start?
intel or amd?
Considerations for motherboard? What functionality to look for? Anything that is usually recommended?
Anything to look out for that is not compatible with unraid overall?
I am trying to keep the costs down and upgrade later if possible. Aiming for a cost around 1000$/10000sek (I am Swedish) for this to get up and running.
Any suggestions are appreciated.