March 21, 20215 yr I don't like spend a lot on making my home environment. a good majority of hardware has come from work when we have retired servers and some drives cause of Foot Print size. My general purpose for my NAS at home is really just a few small functions. I have 1 big share array and Plex. I ran Free NAS on this for 4 years so far. that hardware is a old Dell T310 with 4TB drives 32GB ram and a small SSD. Now that hardware was getting a bit old and I was considering running PiHole on it. But I found FreeNAS just couldn't do that unless I set up a VM. and for what ever strange reason. ByHEV hypervisor couldn't run a VM on my old hardware so then I made a new box from my old desktop computer. In the end I found it was pointless to do what I did. Cause I ended up running PiHole on my old Raspberry Pi3 and it just sits on my desk running. But I really would like to get back to using the older server grade equipment. Do you see any issues with that hardware running UNraid and doing what I did before with FreeNAS. I would like to do a little bit more. like I wanted to setup Sonar and Radarr with a NZB grabber. Currently I'm clouding that job on a seedbox I pay monthly for. So baisly the box just needs to host a share and plex. I just do direct play. I'm not doing trans-coding or anything not sure I need that. Most of the media I get I haven't ran into any issue needing that. The TV's all have the plex ap and I just access my sever that way. And like I said I would like to move Sonarr and NZB grabber. so I could stop giving 15.00 a month for that. I would try to do this all in FreeNAS but I really want to get off FreeNAS I just don't like how limited FreeBSD is. I have tried Open Media Vault and I found I most likely could do what I said using it. But that tool is terrible for reporting any drive issues from what I can tell. I just felt that its to limited and so far from what I have tested I think this product can do what I said above on my old hardware. But I thought I would ask here just in case.
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