questions from a lurker unRaid-curious

Got a few really neat questions from someone via craigslist or FB market place or something. I wanted to introduce them to our Extra community here: one of the biggest value-adds unRaid has to offer.

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You must be quite the audiophile . . . I was looking at your listings on eBay and those are high end items!  And completely positive feedback from buyers -- very nice.

I came across an old box I already have which might accommodate the bare UnRAID minimum, which I believe would be cache/parity/data drives.  If that doesn't accommodate those drives, I may well get back to you about your box.  Obviously it could sell at any time.

I'm hoping that UnRAID becomes less imposing as one gets into it.  And I'll take your advice re: joining the UnRAID forum for help with questions there.

One last question: did you use the piKVM for controlling your UnRAID box from afar? or for other purposes?  Some of the YouTube videos I've seen make piKVM sound very, very cool.

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Howdy! I do fancy myself an audiophile yeah. I love those high quality FLAC tracks, some vinyl and spending too much money on stereo equipment. I figure it could be worse... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Love me some flattery as well of course.

I think the best way to get started here with unRaid is the easiest route: just put together a computer with more than one hard drive, boot off the flash drive, and use it as Network Attached Storage for now. At your own pace you can start customizing drive pools, SMB (samba windows) sharing stuff, maybe a few other things. Unraid connect forum post detailing that piece

Then move onto Docker and the Community Apps store. That's where things will start to get more difficult, and cool!

Spacedinvader1 is a fabulous resource. Some videos are a bit dated, but still work great. This looks like a great place to start:

I'll slap more info in here as I think of it. Welcome to the community!

ruth