Does Unraid give a recommendation on Motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc...? 

 

I am looking to get a 30 drive system. I was not sure if I should use an older computer or maybe to get something more modern. Does Unraid require a lot of memory and modern hardware requirement? 

 

Thanks. 

Edited May 2, 20179 yr by miogpsrocks

6 hours ago, miogpsrocks said:

Does Unraid give a recommendation on Motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc...? 

 

I am looking to get a 30 drive system. I was not sure if I should use an older computer or maybe to get something more modern. Does Unraid require a lot of memory and modern hardware requirement? 

 

Thanks. 

Like anything else in the world, it all depends upon what you want to do.  As a pure NAS, it's requirements are pretty much nothing.  Once you get into running apps on the server, and in particular VM's, then the requirements rise accordingly.

 

Here's a decent starting point:  https://lime-technology.com/hardware-requirements/

Yep, totally depends on what you're doing.  As Squid says, a pure NAS box will be happy with a Celeron G1610T, but if you're running a heap of VMs and Dockers you might need a Xeon E5 or fast i7.

 

I've run a 20TB unRAID running a dozen Dockers, including Plex, off a J1900 with 8GB RAM and it worked just fine.