So I bought unRAID about 3 months ago and gave up since I couldn't figure out what to use it for. I have a Synology NAS I use for storage (still have plenty of space there) which backups nightly to gdrive.

I have a esxi box with Ubuntu on it for Plex and subsonic and torrents. My main machine is a RYZEN rig.

I got to thinking, why have the esxi box wasting electricity, so my options are to run hyper-v Ubuntu for Plex and subsonic (which runs fine) or I could throw unRAID on RYZEN and run windows in a VM and run Plex and other stuff in docker. 

I have in RYZEN 

1x8TB

1x4TB

2x2TB

And a 500gb cache 

 

I don't think I need parity here since the Synology is my main storage for everything. I guess I could mirror my Synology onto unRAID for a local backup but not sure what else I can with unRAID in my setup. I really like unRAID and want to use it but as you can see I am not sure how it fits in.

 

Tl;Dr - already have Synology NAS with storage for backup and am trying to simplify 2 servers and a NAS into 1 server with NAS.

 

 

Assuming the issues with Ryzen and Unraid have been ironed out, I would go with your idea of Installing UnRaid on the Ryzen box, run a Windows VM, and Dockers for the rest.

 

The only thing I would do different is ditch the Synology. Transfer all your stored data to UnRaid add the Synology drives to your system and sell the Synology, or move it offsite - parents, friend etc, and use it as an offsite cloud storage.

 

Keep in mind, UnRaid is first and foremost a NAS. All the other stuff is just icing on the cake

Doing just that!

On 11/3/2017 at 9:19 PM, ffhelllskjdje said:

Doing just that!

Excellent! Let us know how it goes!

 

And again, make sure the Ryzen stuff has been sorted out before you start!

 

I haven't been following it closely, but when Ryzen first came out, there were some issues... but I also know lots of work was getting done to address them...