Hi to everyone

 

I was looking for a NAS soulution for data backup and came across unraid. After some reading and youtube it seems unraid give me a lot of benfits over a classic NAS.

 

Now i was looking for some hardware, currently i have 3 options:

1 - a old PC back from 2009 (i7 first generation, 4gb ddr2 ram) 

i dont think this would work well

 

2 - some used Hardware for around 250.-

ASRock Z68 Extreme4 (https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z68 Extreme4/index.asp)

Intel i5-3570k

16gb ddr3 ram (some used stiks)

256gb ssd, as cach (in a PCIe 4x adapter) (https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/lenovo-ssd-1054969696/)

psu, an old one lying around

HDD's, some old from my current PC, som used ones and new ones (up to 10tb)

 

3 - Use my current System

i7-3960 Hexa Core CPU

MSI Big Bang 2 (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Big-Bang-XPower-II/Specification)

16gb ddr3 ram

GTX 1080ti

sata ssd for os and some hdd's

(edit)

 - i will buy the same 256gb pcie ssd as cach for unraid, and upgrade the ram to 32gb

    - unraid will get 2 cores and 4 will be pass to the Windows VM if it runs (if this can be configured)

    - the gtx 1080ti will be pass to the windows vm, what i read i need a second gpu for unraid and the Linux VM (?)

        - if i buy a quadro card, is it possible to switch the cards for the windows VM (CAD Work with the quadro, gaming with the gtx), in the best case, coud these be done on the fly (like hot plug)?

    - is it possible to mount the windows os ssd directly in unraid and pass it to the VM, so i dont have to set up a new windows, same for my hdd with all programs and    Steam library

 

 

 

What i want to do: (if its possible)

- NAS (additional Backup for important data, like photos etc)

- Nextcloud

- Plex Server

- VM, Linux, for downloading and run a pihole

 

For the future i want a 10gbs fiber internet connection and like to upgrade to this network card (https://www.asus.com/Networking/XG-C100C/)

Storage i will upgrade over time.

 

Is this realistic? what will be the best solution?

 

Thanks for all help & advise.

Edited March 21, 20197 yr by dodosworld

2 minutes ago, dodosworld said:

sata ssd for os

The Unraid OS is installed into RAM, unpacked fresh from the archives on the USB flash drive at boot into RAM. and runs in RAM. So you won't be installing it on an SSD.

 

5 minutes ago, dodosworld said:

HDD's, some old from my current PC, som used ones and new ones

Parity by itself doesn't protect anything. All bits of parity PLUS all bits of all other disks must be read reliably in order to reliably reconstruct the data from a missing or failed disk. So you need to be sure to only use trustworthy disks in the array.

30 minutes ago, trurl said:

The Unraid OS is installed into RAM, unpacked fresh from the archives on the USB flash drive at boot into RAM. and runs in RAM. So you won't be installing it on an SSD.

i mean the current os (windows) is installed there