May 28, 20206 yr I'm a PC guru with very little knowledge in network storage. A problem I am currently working on. Unraid was gifted to me by my son and I whole heartedly received this gift of network storage. I have a basic license. I plan to build with: 4 x 2TB 7200 HDD 1 x 2TB 7200 HDD Parity 1 x 512GB SSD cache My computer is: Asus P6T7 WS Intel Xeon E5520 (with a Hex core CPU in the wings for later swap-out) 24GB DDR3 I plan to use this array for media storage along with Plex to watch my "stuff". I also plan to load this machine with GPUs for Folding at home in a VM. This machine is caseless at the moment. It is running in a cool basement. I will keep the drives in a drive cage and away from the hot GPUs. What tips can you lend to help me learn, build and maintain this setup.
May 28, 20206 yr 55 minutes ago, don256us said: I'm a PC guru with very little knowledge in network storage. A problem I am currently working on. Unraid was gifted to me by my son and I whole heartedly received this gift of network storage. I have a basic license. I plan to build with: 4 x 2TB 7200 HDD 1 x 2TB 7200 HDD Parity 1 x 512GB SSD cache My computer is: Asus P6T7 WS Intel Xeon E5520 (with a Hex core CPU in the wings for later swap-out) 24GB DDR3 I plan to use this array for media storage along with Plex to watch my "stuff". I also plan to load this machine with GPUs for Folding at home in a VM. This machine is caseless at the moment. It is running in a cool basement. I will keep the drives in a drive cage and away from the hot GPUs. What tips can you lend to help me learn, build and maintain this setup. It looks to be ok without a deep search on all items. I would use the ssd as your appdata (dockers) drive. On this drive, Plex can run along side other dockers I am sure you will want to play with. Even Folding@home is on a docker, so no need for a VM. I don't have much of anything else except have fun and enjoy Unraid.
May 28, 20206 yr Author Really?! F@H is on a docker?! Oh I gotta learn more about that. Thank you very much for everything.
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