Should I Unraid?

[Nicolai]

Hello everyone,

 

As the title suggest, I don't know if unraid would be a fit for me, so let me give the system information, what I use my PC for and my idea/hope/desire with unraid.

 

System:
i7-11700K

Asus Z590-P

16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200

Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD

Asus GeForce RTC 3070 Ti 8GB TUF

4 mismatched mechanical harddrives.

 

PC Use:
I'm using the PC for mainly school and work, the occational videogame and I'm saving all my pictures and videos of my son on here. I'm using VPN connections for work and for school.

 

Hopes:
I'm hoping with unraid, I can install 2-3 additional SSDs, either through SATA or NVMe, and having parity on those, to attempt to protect my pictures and videos of my son, I'd like to run Windows 11 Pro on a VM and have it set up as if I'm not at a virtual machine if that makes sense, while I'm using the PC. I've found as windows runs along it gets slower and slower, so if possible I'd like to have a backup VM I can just copy and keep running as it slows down.

 

I don't know if any of this is possible or what I'd need to aquire for it to be possible, but I'm open to all suggestions and happy for any help and advice I can get. Thank you in advance!