April 26, 20242 yr Afternoon, I've been running a "home server" for the past 15 years since the windows media center days and now the current hardware i have isn't supported by windows 11 (i5 6500) I thought rather than throw it away I'd convert it for something else and learn about dockers etc. I need help working out how best to set up unraid. This is my current set up, windows on bare metal, 8gb of ram (thinking about upgrading to 32 for this project), os on 256gb nvme, storage of important docs/music (for plex) on a 4tb nvme, 4tb spinning disk for blue iris cctv. spare 500 gb ssd to add in I'd like to run a vm for the windows pc running blue iris, I'm assuming passing the 4tb spinning disk to the vm would be best for it to carry on recording to. I need the vm on the 500gb ssd drive (and docker things?) so do i create a cache pool for them to sit on? then do i create an array with the 256 and 4tb nvme to store the important docs on? is the array the only thing that gets drive protection or can the pool have that too? would this be the right way to set things up or is there a better way to set things up? Thanks!
April 26, 20242 yr Community Expert I started with this guy's videos: https://m.youtube.com/@SpaceinvaderOne I don't think I could have gotten into Unraid without his videos.
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