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Looking for Help with first time NAS setup

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Hello all, 

Here is what I currently have for pc's and what I would like to do with them-

Home- I have a desktop, Wife has a desktop, both on win 10

Offsite workshop- 1 desktop, 2 laptops. Both laptops on win 11, desktop on win 10

I would like to turn the Desktop at my shop into a "part time NAS". Boot into unRaid 90% of the time, Boot into windows when I need to use it(once or twice a week) Can i do this?

I would like to Duplicate My home desktop F drive directly to a drive on the shop NAS, so they are an exact copy. Can I do this?

I am 100% networked with Unifi equipment at both locations and will be using Unifi site to site VPN 

Thanks in advance!

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Windows and Unraid use different filesystems. Windows must not be allowed to access the Unraid disks when it is booted. Unraid can access Windows disks as Unassigned Devices using a plugin.

 

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55 minutes ago, trurl said:

Windows and Unraid use different filesystems. Windows must not be allowed to access the Unraid disks when it is booted. Unraid can access Windows disks as Unassigned Devices using a plugin.

 

If I install windows on a small 500gb SSD and do not format any of the other drives in the pc I should be ok? I do not store much local data on my shop PC as its mostly used for fusion 360 which is cloud based

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2 hours ago, Thenewguy said:

would like to turn the Desktop at my shop into a "part time NAS". Boot into unRaid 90% of the time, Boot into windows when I need to use it(once or twice a week) Can i do this?

You can run Unraid 100% of the time and run WIN10 as a VM.  Here is the section of the manual for VM's.

 

     https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/vm/vm-management/

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