Hi all,

 

I have been reading for the past few week about unRaid. It sounds amazing and something that I really want to do. Let me tell you a little about my current setup.

 

I have the latest Mac mini with 4GB of ram, which is Plex, Plex Media Server, Transmission, uTorrent, SABnzbd, Couchpotato, sick beard, trakt scobbler, logmein, iTunes, and google music.

 

The way my media is stored is on all external hard rives which is now at 16TB. I use a usb hub for all of them connected to a single usb slot on my mac. My plex seems to be going extremely slow, and I am wondering if it is due to the usb hub and all the externals.

 

Now my main question. If you could do it again what would you do in my situation? I'm thinking about a 12-15 bay build. I want cheap so I was thinking just get the bare essentials and run all the programs on the Mac Mini and storage on the unRaid. But now I m wondering if I should run the programs that can, on the unRaid and the use the Mini as a player?

 

What would you guys do? I look at Rajs recommended builds but they seem out of date. Is there a better way of seeing what the most up to date hardware would cost?

 

Any recommendations would be great from you guys. I am a noob at linux and servers but eager to get my storage up and running. I have had enough with the damn usb hub haha.

 

Thanks!

I would run what I can on unraid. Sabnzbd, sickbeard and couchpotato are all set and forget type apps so they work well with unraid, plus all use webgui's which is even better.

 

I've have no experience with plex or plex media server so I can't help there, although I suspect you should get atleast a dual core if it will be transcoding. Sickbeard and couchpotato will have no problem with a single core, sabnzbd will run reasonably well, only slowing down when extracting an archive. This isn't apparent unless your streaming HD or something, sabnzbd runs all the time here and I haven't noticed any sluggishness with the sempron(raj recommended processor).