Hello all,

 

It has been rather a long time since I graced this forum with a post, but I have lurked on and off as Unraid grew into what it is now.

 

Previously, I had been investigating Unraid as a possible fix to my growing storage need back when 4.7 was new, and for this I had an ASUS C-60 mini-itx motherboard and a couple of old 500gb 2.5 inch drives in a slimline case. This worked OK. But I didn't build on this as several events happened, one of which was moving half way around the world.

 

There is the possibility of another big move and, rather than fill half a container with my 'stuff' I am thinking of digitizing, merging some of my computer kit and taking just a small PC with large drives over.

 

Now before I bite the bullet and spend some hard earned on a new CPU/Motherboard/Memory (thinking Ryzen 6 core+ now the issues seem to be fixed) I was wondering if I could quickly see how the latest version is on my old motherboard. So firstly, as Unraid has grown in capability, will the C-60 (dual core 1GHz, Passmark 542) be able to run it? And if so, what other pieces of the newer functionality could it handle?

 

For example, when I build my new set up I would want a Win 7 VM so as to run some of my (very) old games and applications that my Win10 laptop just won't. I will not be installing these now, I would just like to see a Win 7 VM through RDP from the laptop. I am not expecting blistering performance, actually I am not expecting any kind of performance at all. If this isn't possible I would prefer not to even try it now, and just wait for when I buy my new kit, but I am itching to try stuff.

 

Eventually I hope to initially have a setup (on the new kit) with a Win 7 VM, a Mint/Ubuntu VM, several dockers, and maybe a Win10 VM for some work related stuff.

 

M0zz.

 

 

If the CPU supports vt-d, it should work, albeit rather slowly. Installing the disk image on an SSD would help with that. You'd just need to have enough memory for both unRaid and the VM. I'd think 8G would be (barely) enough for a test (4G unRaid/4G win7), but you'd want more if you were really operating in that mode.

 

But it does work, and a new kit will make it a pleasant experience.

The baseline hardware requirements for unRAID 6 are a little higher than they used to be.  Your dual core, 542 Passmark C-60 would have run unRAID 5 Ok, and can hopefully run unRAID 6 if you also have 2GB of RAM.  That said it's the bare minimum to run unRAID 6 basic NAS functionality.  If you have more than 2GB you could start playing with some Dockers but if you have a bad experience it could easily be because you have an underpowered test bed.  Even more so for VMs.  So give it a shot, no harm done - but if you have a more capable machine to use as a test bed I'd recommend it.

unRAID 6 is deathly slow on an AMD TurionII in a N40L Microserver.  I highly doubt it'll run on a C-60 which is half the speed.

 

Thanks for the responses.

 

I think I will leave it for now and wait until I have the new kit.

 

just don’t tell the wife.

Now...

 

what do i do with this old mobo?

 

 

1 hour ago, M0zza said:

Now...

 

what do i do with this old mobo?

Yeah, exactly.  I've got enough parts to build a couple of complete systems, but no one would want them...  I've even tried.  "Hey, I could build you a system for your friend... no thanks dad, I think he'll just grab a cheap laptop from eBay...".  It kills me to throw away working hardware but at some point that's what it comes to - it may still work but it's functionally obsolete. Maybe build your own pfsense router?