October 13, 201411 yr My original purpose was to strictly create a NAS that could distribute media to numerous devices. I've since decided that I have other purposes that I would like to use my NAS. Beacuse of this, I am no longer sure if having unRAID at the bare metal level is the way to go. Things start to get very complex with all of the different plugins. I'm far from an expert at this stuff, just learning as I go. I'm beginning to think that there are likely other options that would better suit my needs. My primary use is still to use my server as a NAS. I have 3 3TB HD and a smaller SSD. I'm looking to add functionality for: - Home surveillance - Servers for certain gaming applications - Run some sort of cloud application for remote file sharing What's the optimal way to set this up? Should I run unRAID and just use a bunch of plugins? Should I start with unRAID, get a VM on top of unRAID and then run all these extra things in some form of a linux VM? What about a type 1 hypervisor like VMWare ESXi and then install an instance of unRAID or freeNAS as one VM, and then run additional VMs on top of that? Seems like so many options and no idea which makes most sense!
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