Not long ago I built a new gaming PC and stowed away everything into a box and in the closet. But I was thinking there had to be something I could use it for. And that's when I kept coming across the acronym: NAS. I'm not a patient person so I went through a couple other systems and Unraid just seemed to click with me. And recently I "discovered" containers and what they do and running a legit virtual machine. Now I have a Windows (and Linux) that I can mess with and without fear that I won't have a usable system because I did something risky. And I did not plan this to happen at all, but I ended up getting another motherboard for more SATA  ports, upgraded from 16 GB to 64GB of RAM. Said screw it, swapped out the Ryzen 7 5800X for a Ryzen 9 5950XT because I wanted to play with more cores. And just a moment ago I got my network going in 2.5gb (I wanted 10gb but a lack of PICe lanes seems to be a thing). Unraid has been a champ. I've had to lurk around for some miscellaneous issues, but so far thanks for the answers I've found I've been able to get back in running in no time.

 

Just wanted to give a shoutout to the helpful people here. Although you didn't directly help me, by helping someone else you still did help me.

The Unraid Support Group meets on Tuesdays, after the Mover completes (except during Parity Checks)...