December 17, 20187 yr Just trying to plan how to move forward with my set-up. My build is: Intel i7-9700k 970 500GB EVO (Main OS) Barracuda Pro 4TB (Storage) Looking to slowly add more storage to this, see below RTX-2080 16GB 3200-DDR4 RAM I currently mostly use this PC for Gaming (1440p) and have been slowly building up a Plex Media Server on it as well which serves my household (2-3 streams max, potentially more in future if I open it up) Right now I'm using "Docker for Windows" to run my Plex stack (Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/nginx/etc.) Eventually I'll be looking at increasing my storage capacity to accommodate Plex as my library grows. As far as I see it there are three options, curious what you all think the benefits, risks, and downsides would be in each: Leave things as is. Potentially look at Virtualbox to spin up a Ubuntu VM with Docker instead of using Docker for Windows? Keep adding drives to my PC as storage requires. Replace my OS with Unraid, virtualize Win10 for gaming and Docker seperately. Not sure what value this would offer? Dig out the old gaming PC (i5-4690k with a 256GB SSD for OS) and run Unraid on that for Plex. Media would still be stored on my main gaming PC and accessed over the network. Would allow offloading of Transcoding at least? In general it seems like a lot of the value Unraid offers comes from mixing drives which, at my current library size, is a non-factor. Are there other value adds that I'm missing? Appreciate any input 😃 Edited December 17, 20187 yr by Alente
December 17, 20187 yr 24 minutes ago, Alente said: As far as I see it there are three options, curious what you all think the benefits, risks, and downsides would be in each None of those. The way it would normally be done around here would be to have all your media and dockers on Unraid (Unraid is a docker host), with Windows on a VM in Unraid (Unraid is also a VM host), or possibly a separate Windows computer for whatever you would do with a PC. Not only can you mix drives of different sizes, but the Unraid (not RAID) way of doing things makes it very easy to add drives to the storage pool. Folders can span drives
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