May 17, 201214 yr Hi, I need a second opion, suggestions and improvements please. My Current Setup: HP Microserver N36L + 8GB RAM + 2 x 2TB HDD (RAID 0), 80GB SSD (Windows 2008 R2) This runs SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato, Plex Media Server (iPad Streaming). PS3 Media Server, Windows Shares, ExtremeZ-IP (Time Machine Backups), FingerPrint (AirPrint), Dropbox (PDF to iPad) Has been working pretty well however I need more storage, some form of redundancy and expand my storage easily without having to go through the hassle of moving around exsisting files. I’ve spent countless weeks going through all the various NAS software offerings, FreeNas, Openfiler, OpenMediaVault, Nexentastor, Greyhole, Debian (Software RAID) to name just a few. Until I came across unRAID which ticks all the boxes for me, allows me to expand the array, use harddrives of various sizes and perfect for media files storage. The issue I have is do I run one machine, (N36L) which does all of the above or do I deploy two HP Microsevers, one for storage and the other to handle all the apps? I have tried SABnzbd on unRAID and because it’s written in Python the performance isn’t brilliant in comparsion to my Windows machine ~7mb/sec downloads vs ~11mb/sec. I’m stuck because I could probably run all those bits of software on my MBP without needing an additional machine however maybe I need an *always on* machine. I also have a 50” telly which connects to PMS so I could possibly get one of those nano machines (Foxconn Nettop- nT-A3500) and have XMBC running with those apps in the backgroud, idle when watching movies etc. Thanks for all your help
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