March 29, 20215 yr Good afternoon all, Here is my question as I could not find a direct answer, only various posts eluding to it. I understand ZFS needs ecc memory (from previous FreeNAS installation), but will unRaid run on an i7-8700k with standard 3200 DDR4 memory? I have not installed unRaid yet. Currently using an older home built server (upgraded to Windows Server 2019 Essential last year). This is running on a Dual Xeon X5660 2.80GH, 8gb x 18 DIMMs, on a Supermicro X8DAH. 2 LSI/Avago 9207-8i. Currently have two main drive pools (one older and one newer) each running 5 drives, hot spare, mirror configuration (all about data redundancy). Originally build 5 years ago. I want to move away from windows server and to more current hardware. I am new to unRaid but am looking for a viable GPU passthrough solution. From what I have read, either unRaid or FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) are the options. Through multiple articles, forums etc, most of the information reinforces unRaid as a better solution for GPU passthrough. But not as easy to launch ZFS (although there is a plug in now). The deployment will ultimately consist of full media, data storage, laptop and PC backups, 2-4 gaming vms for older games as well as current generation.
March 30, 20215 yr 10 hours ago, JRye.34 said: but will unRaid run on an i7-8700k with standard 3200 DDR4 memory? Yes, and ECC is not required for FreeNAS, it's recommended, same for Unraid if you care about data integrity.
March 30, 20215 yr 28 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Yes, and ECC is not required for FreeNAS, it's recommended, same for Unraid if you care about data integrity. A difference is that people here will not complain if you do not use ECC.
March 30, 20215 yr Author I dont know the answer to this either.....Windows server with ecc memory, how does that compare to the zfs pluggin for unRaid?
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