May 25, 20179 yr Hey all, I wanted to thank this community for all of it's help by documenting so much so well about how to get going on unRAID. After 10+ years using consumer Windows to run my various iterations of a 'home server', I finally decided to make a change - after looking at all the options, unRAID became the clear pick for me. I blogged pretty much every detail of how I converted my machine - in particular those I had to hunt for instructions. Hopefully someone else will find this useful should they be looking to make a similar change. From Windows to unRAID: choosing my next home-server OS How-to: Migrate from Windows RAID to unRAID Securing a new unRAID installation Convert a Windows Installation into a unRAID (KVM) Virtual Machine Reduce (Shrink) raw image (.img) size of a Windows Virtual Machine Controlling Case Fans Based on Hard Drive Temperature My build is very modest - I've got a 5 year old ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3 motherboard with an Intel Core i5-2500k processor and 16GB of RAM. Running 120GB x2 cache disks with 4TB parity + 4TB data, with an additional 4TB disk that's outside of the array for IP camera recordings. All of that, crammed into a pizza box of a case. So far, I'm running OpenVPN, CrashPlan, and Logitech Media Server via Docker, and a Windows VM for my security cam software. All told, it probably took me a month of weekends to convert from Windows -> unRAID. And most of that time was spent on various badblocks + long smartctrl tests to burn in each of the 3 new HDDs I put into my aging server as part of the upgrade. It's good to be back running Linux in my home. Thanks for all of your help - this forum (and all the contributions from the various Docker + plugin authors) has been so great. -kmwoley Edited May 25, 20179 yr by kmwoley
May 25, 20179 yr If the few posts you have made so far are any indication, I think you could be a great asset to the community. I hope you will be a frequent contributor. Another user suggested moving this thread, and I agree it is more useful than typical Lounge posts, so I am moving it to UCD where your build thread is. Welcome! Stick around!
May 25, 20179 yr Good info. Here's something you might find useful. Doing this keeps the image file trimmed in Windows so it stays thin provisioned instead of eventually growing to the size you allocated.
July 13, 20178 yr This has to be one of the best "intro to a product" I have ever seen and have bookmarked this one a I migrate from Win10
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