Vetteman Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Retired computer tech support for 32 years. Started as a dBase/Visual Basic database programmer for the first 5 years but the rest of my time as system administrator for file & print servers. First with Novell Netware & Citrix Winframe later with Windows server & SUSE samba servers. At home I have a small network of Windows 10 Home PC (used for photo editing of my raw photos shot with Nikon & Olympus DSLRs via Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop), digital illustrations via Photoshop, Corel Painter, ArtRage & Rebelle, 3D modeling via 3DCoat, Blender, Silo3d 2.5, Moi3D, DAZ Studio and 3D rendering in e-onsoftware's Vue, 2nd Windows 10 Home PC using as a NAS via Windows storage space and a linux PC running Zorin-Os which is a Ubuntu 20.04 derivative. All computers were built by me. I take many photos at local classic car shows during the summer as well as landscape photos throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. I also have lots of 3D models I've created or purchased as well as digital illustrations. All assets reside on my photo editing PC and backed up to a mess of 9 external drives plus several portable drives. I stated shucking some of the older 3 & 4TB WD external drives and placing them into a new Corsair 200R case with a Seasonic 650 powersupply. I had an older Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H socket 1150 mobo with I-7-4770S cpu and 32 gbs of memory on my shelf (used to be my photo editing PC). My first thought was about building another Windows 10 storage spaces box or an Ubuntu server using mdadm raid 5 or 6 OR ZFS raidz1 / raidz2. But raid 5/6 seemed too old school. And ZFS raid seemed to waste too much disk space. Then I ran ran into SpaceInvaders youtube channel when I started searching for NAS solutions and alternatives to Windows storage space and Linux mdadm or ZFS pools. After much youtube watching, I downloaded the trial yesterday and was hooked. I'll be purchasing soon. Maybe tomorrow. My hobbies are digital photography, 3D modeling/rendering, digital illustrating, watching NHL hockey (played the sport unit I was 52), antique and classic cars (restored an antique car in 1983 and still own it) and of course computer technology. Cheers and many thanks for creating this wonderful product Unraid. 3 Quote Link to comment
Pducharme Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Welcome to UNRAID fun! started my "Unraid" journey in 2013 😮 Now have 118TB Array with 80TB already filled up! Quote Link to comment
Vetteman Posted November 29, 2021 Author Share Posted November 29, 2021 (edited) Pducharme - Thanks very much. Looking forward to the journey. Unraid certainly is a very slick and polished program. Made the purchase today for the pro version. The 20% Cyber Monday certainly made it lucrative as an USA dollar is equal to 1.27. So the 20% discount put a nice dent into the exchange rate. Edited December 2, 2021 by Vetteman To correct posters name. 1 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 17 minutes ago, Vetteman said: 981 I guess that means I am 32.1K and you are 2. 😁 Quote Link to comment
Vetteman Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 Pducharme - I just noticed you live in Sherbrooke, Quebec which is the home of one of my favorite NHL players, David Perron. I believe he had the Stanley Cup in Sherbrooke. Been to Sherbrooke, very nice place and quite hilly in certain areas. Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Best money ever spent. Welcome to unRAID. As you start to rely on your server, start using new drives. My advise is to start w/ big capacity on you parity drives…. If you get into media center storage, you are going to want lots of storage. Quote Link to comment
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