andy harris Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 so i decided i need to upgrade my synology running out of storage first i looked at bigger disks 4tb to 8tb upgrade that worked out at around £500 (ironwolf drives i just like them) wow that expensive next i looked at a bigger synology (more bays) £1400 (wow thats even more expensive) then i started looking at unraid and i found i could build one sell my synology and have enough left over to buy a couple more disk , well almost i had some computer parts lying around doing nothing corsair 650 psu i5 7400 cpu 24gb of ddr4 so all i needed was case (ebay special rack mount server case $49) motherboard (asus 270z with two nvme slots) raid card (9220i ebay special) graphics card (p400 from ebay) nvme drives (512 amazon offer ones) so of i went purchased all the parts then hit my first hurdle, how the hell to i copy 10tb of data from a synology to a unraid server the answer borrow 12tb of storage space of a friend then set it running and copy the data across (it seamed to take ages) then remove the parity drive from the synology (and pray that one of the other drives didn't fail) sync up the parity drive then swap the borrowed drives out for the 4tb iron wolf drives (2 days later all 5 4tb drives in and all data copied across so what have i ended up with intell 7700 cpu (managed an upgrade along the way) z270 motherboard 24 gb ram 20 tb hard drive space (closer to 18 but whos counting) 2x512 cache disks p200 graphics (nice to have when i need to transcode a video) corsair 650 psu corsair water cooler for cpu cheap ebay case (that is actual really good) intel raid card and i have to say it is brilliant runs my cameras pihole pfsnese windows vm and unifi (plus a few other odds and ends) brilliantly never breaks a sweat (unless you count the time the rouge docker container decided to use all my cpu) best decision i ever made well worth the effort great bit of software 1 Quote Link to comment
SpencerJ Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Thanks for posting and welcome!! Quote Link to comment
10meghalfduplex Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I never had the guts to put pfsense in unraid 🙂 glad it's worked out well, agree - it's a great bit of software, and it just keeps getting better. Quote Link to comment
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