unRAID noob

[Dramed]

Greetings

 

I was not sure where to place this post, so it seemed fitting it ended up here.

 

I am a very new unRAID user, less than a day old. After much thought and googling, aimlessly looking for a cost effective home storage solution for my music, dvds, and assorted media, I stumbled across this little gem.

 

I trawled through the forums digesting all I could, and after a week or so managed to talk my wife into spending a modest £150 on a new MB, memory, cpu, and pci ide card, combined with some old IDE hard drives I already had kicking about as well as the other assorted pieces required to complete my first server build.

 

I have to admit I have approached my first excursion into the land of linux with mixed feelings and a little trepidation.

 

So I spread everything out on the living room floor and pieced together the hardware, I've not build a pc in a few years so it was a little exercise for the grey matter, but it all came back to me with a few notes of modified fittings and improvements in MB design.

 

I carefully followed the intructions to build the free version of the unRAID OS on a flash drive I already had and plugged it into the newly built server.

 

The server powered up perfectly, BIOS selftests all passed, I made a few modifications to the boot ordering, and disabled the on-board sound.

 

Saved and exited the BIOS, the USB Flash Drive booted first time, and my server appeared the come to life.

 

I moved hastily to my laptop and pathed to the tower....

 

It works perfectly.

 

I had to work out the basics myself, but the forum trawling paid off and I now have a small, but perfectly formed media server.

 

To be honest I cant believe just how easy it was, I am still expecting a problem to occur... lol (but hoping it wont)

 

I would just like to take this post to thank the designer(s), for solving a problem I have been mulling for some time now, and for making the set up so painless.

 

I can see myself purchasing the pro key in the near future so long as the system and OS remains stable over time.

 

Keep up the good work

 

[erikatcuse]

Greetings

 

I can see myself purchasing the pro key in the near future so long as the system and OS remains stable over time.

 

Keep up the good work

 

 

The pro key will be well worth it and as an early adopter of Unraid (about 2 years ago) I can say my server runs great....from time to time I have to reboot my router but the only time I've ever had to reset Unraid was for a disk upgrade or beta testing.

 

Enjoy

 

Erik