Blacksus Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Hello, I'm planning on building a PC that serves multiple purposes and I'm fairly sure that unRAID is the best choice for my plan, however I would like to verify that before I even buy the hardware. I'm actually not interested in a parity disk since the data wont be crucial, and I have already verified that a parity disk is not necessarily needed and can be added at a later point in time. However, the PC would stand beside a TV for occasionally playing back DVD/BR, surfing the web, checking mails and printing. Since my parents would do that and they're used to Windows, that would be the choice for that. As a second OS I'd want a linux distro without any desktop environment that I can control via SSH, and it would function as a DLNA(transcoding wont be needed) and file server to be reached from the PCs and set-top boxes within the local network. Some other server tasks might be added as well, so going only with windows wont do. Is unRAID a good choice for me ? Also, since windows will only be needed occasionally, is it possible to start and stop windows while the linux distro serves 24/7 ? I appreciate any answer Link to comment
Mullvaden83 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Since you wont need parity and want to activly use it. You should juat have a linux on it. Imo Link to comment
Blacksus Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 The pain of teaching my parents how to use a linux desktop environment is greater than any pain I'd have setting up unRAID or anything else. It might seem easy for us, but at older age people like to stick to the looks and functions they have learned already. Windows is crucial in my case. If it would just be me, I'd just use linux. yeah Link to comment
trurl Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 unRAID is already a Linux, but if you aren't going to bother with the NAS functionality, I have to wonder why not just do everything your talking about with a Windows machine? Seems a lot simpler especially if this is for your parents to use. Link to comment
Blacksus Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Huh well I might just use the NAS functionality for file/dlna purposes then. I do need a linux on the machine for other smaller things I have in mind. Link to comment
trurl Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 unRAID is a customized slackware distro. You can of course install VMs for Windows or other Linux distros if you want. It is possible that dockers may make it unnecessary to bother with a Linux VM. See this sticky thread for the amazing number of dockers already available from this community. Link to comment
Blacksus Posted August 10, 2016 Author Share Posted August 10, 2016 Thanks trurl. Wish I had seen this earlier as I would not have had to open this thread. Im convinced Link to comment
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