So I have been looking at ways of backing up my Synology DS1819+ and just can't afford to buy another NAS at the moment (And I think it's a wasted of money for my use case). I have my sons old gaming PC lying around doing nothing so I thought I would give UNRAID ago.

 

My Plan is to Backup using Synology Hyperbackup Rsync to the Unraid Server and also use it to learn about Unraid.

 

The old PC is an Asrock A320M-HDV v4 motherboard with a Ryzen 5 2400G Processor. I think this can accommodate 4 HDD plus 1 M.2 SATA SSD.

 

All I would need to Buy is a new Suitable Case to hold 4 HDD's (I have drives lying around as well).

 

Would this combination of Hardware be OK from a compatibility perspective with Unraid?

 

Thanks

Jon

Certainly.  Especially if it is just going to be used for backup storage duty.

 

See my siggy below, and you'll see that my old 1500X system is used for just that, backing up the media files from my main server.