benwaynet Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
benwaynet Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
grphx Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
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