want to test unraid

[benwaynet]

I want to test unraid before I purchase hardware for it.

 

I had an old Dell 2950 but none of the drives show up when I boot. I was told the perc6 does work with unraid.

 

I have room in my ESX dev environment to spin up a virtual machine but it looks like I have to map an individual drive or pass through a controller. This ESX server is running a bunch of other Dev vms I can't disrupt them.

 

If I find an unused Dell workstation with a single drive. Will that work to test unraid, just boot of the usb and have one drive no parity if I'm just testing?

 

thanks,jb

[bonienl]

I am not sure what you want to test, but a single disk system won't show the specific advantages that unRAID has to offer. I would use at least two disks, more is even better.

 

[benwaynet]

I'm looking to test some docker containers to do backups (remote and mobile)

 

I don't think any of our standard dell workstations have space for two drives.

 

I've been out of desktop support for so long

 

jb

[grphx]

I'm looking to test some docker containers to do backups (remote and mobile)

 

If you have a physical machine with one drive, and use a trial license, I think you can test what you'd like.  I had an old desktop with a single 1TB drive in it and I was able to install dockers and mess around in the web interface.