Old PC repurposed

[AnthonyC]

Hello everyone.

I am so new to Unraid that I haven’t even downloaded it yet! I am familiar with NAS drives though.

I have an ASUS H170-pro motherboard with intel i7-6700 CPU, 32Gb of non ECC ram & a M.2 500Gb SSD. I’m guessing that I can do away with the Nvidia graphics card as I would use it headless. I currently have 2x4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD configured as one 8TB drive. I know the risks with that but the drive backs up to an external NAS drive. I also have 1x2TB drive also Seagate but not an Ironwolf. It currently runs Win10 and is used to store all my media content. I use Plex server to make that content available to the TVs around the house.

My questions & thoughts are getting rid of win 10 and using Unraid instead. I was thinking of having 3x4TB drives (I already have those) for the data & 2x8TB parity drives to allow for some future expansion. I assume I could use the existing 500Gb M.2 drive as a cache drive. I only plan to use Plex server. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports. Basically I’m asking would that work? My other question is that this PC has a Cyber-Power BR1000ELCD UPS attached, & would really like to keep that. Would it work with Unraid? Oh yes & the PSU is an Antec TP-750.

 

So any comments, guidance would be welcome.

Anthony

[Zonediver]

9 hours ago, AnthonyC said:

Basically I’m asking would that work?

 

Sure - why not? I personally avoid Seagate drives 😉

My machine is a "plex-server-only" and runns since 2010

Edited May 19, 2022 by Zonediver

[AnthonyC]

thanks, I was thinking it would do the job. As for HDDs I guess it’s one of those things, I had several failures with WD but none with Seagate so that makes me favour Seagate. Thanks for your reply.

[Zonediver]

3 minutes ago, AnthonyC said:

thanks, I was thinking it would do the job. As for HDDs I guess it’s one of those things, I had several failures with WD but none with Seagate so that makes me favour Seagate. Thanks for your reply.

 

You are welcome 👍

[Zonediver]

EDIT: You can also use Hardware-Transcoding with Plex and this CPU - a plex-pass is required.

[AnthonyC]

Yes I already have a lifetime Plex pass, the transcoding is worth the cost, I’m already using it on Win 10. It makes a real difference to how the TVs display the video.

[Zonediver]

1 minute ago, AnthonyC said:

Yes I already have a lifetime Plex pass, the transcoding is worth the cost, I’m already using it on Win 10. It makes a real difference to how the TVs display the video.

👍😉