August 9, 20169 yr My server is an old SuperMicro 24-bay server from ebay, it has been mentioned here in many threads if you search for SC846. I have not yet started using it. I was planning on running Windows Server Essentials R2 or Win 10 as an OS but am now considering unRaid. I have very little experience with Linux other than using it for web development My concerns - [*]main concern is all my data is on NTFS drives. These can't be used, right? [*]what is the performance compared to Windows? (ok clearly it won't be worse but is it faster?) [*]all my client pc's are going to be Windows and a fee Kodi boxes running OpenElec [*]my hardware is not very fast (low power AMD cpu, SATA1), should I be concerned? I really like idea of unRaid and there are so many plugins! #1 really is my main concern. Has anyone made a similar switch, i.e. unRaid is their first Linux server with most data on NTFS/Windows before, how did it work out?
August 9, 20169 yr Author It seems to move from NTFS the suggested way is to use this plugin - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=45807.0 ?
August 10, 20169 yr [*]To get any kind of benefit from unRAID, you're going to want to move that NTFS data off of those drives and onto the native unRAID stuff. Unassigned devices with NTFS is just a hack to let you migrate data, you really don't want to use it as your main storage. [*]Performance of what? For both Windows and unRAID, reads are pretty much going to be at wire speed: 125MB/s over gigabit. Writes will vary a lot on both sides, how you set it up determines which will be faster. Write speed is not unRAID's strong point. [*]Not relevant. You can make Windows or Linux boxes talk to Windows or Linux boxes, it's fairly easy in all directions. [*]A SC846 is a case, so we have no way to know what specific hardware you're going to stick in that case. If your CPU is dreadfully slow, it might slow things down trying to calculate parity and handle some of the downloader dockers, but we'd need more details on what you're going to put in the case. SATA1 shouldn't be a problem, it's still faster than wire speed.
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