May 31, 201115 yr Hi, quick noob question... I have an HTPC running Win7 64-bit. Inside is an i3 build with the OS running on a 40GB SSD. Nothing too elaborate. I also have a Sans Digital TR4UT (4-bay external eSATA RAID box) currently housing a 1TB & 2TB drive, not in any type of array. I can obviously buy at least two more 2TB drives for a 4TB RAID5 setup, and call it a day, but I'd like to be able to use unRAID to utilize the extra 1TB and whatever other 3.5" drives I happen to find around my house. From what I can tell, I can't "install" unRAID onboard my TR4UT as it doesn't have a customizable hard/firmware. But what I'm curious about is somehow installing unRAID in my HTPC alongside (on top of?) Windows and utilizing the enclosure as just that... a place where four hard drives live. Can unRAID a) run in/on/with Windows 7? and b) run in/on/with four HDDs in an external box via USB2 or eSATA? Thanks!
June 1, 201115 yr You can't run unraid at the same time as windows. I do however, use two 5 bay Sans Digital eSATA enclosures with my unraid server. They work just fine, and allow me to run 20 data drives, parity and a cache drive. In your case, you'd have to make a dedicated unraid server and connect the SD box to it via eSATA; the drives in the SD are seen as integral unraid disks. This assumes, of course, that you've cleared and formatted the drives via unraid ir add-on scripts.
June 2, 201115 yr You can run unRAID in a VM, which would allow you to run an HTPC on the same box. However, this is a very complicated route. I prefer to run separate boxes for separate functions to keep things simple. That way if one box goes down, my entire network doesn't go down.
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