gartner Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) Hi I am new here, and want to build my first Unraid server. Mostly from some spare parts. I will use 6 x 4tb nas Seagate IronWolf disks (2 is parity) and 2x500 gb samsung ssd as cache.... I got an i5-4460 Processor and a Fatal1ty Z97 Killer motherboard laying around. Think to use 16 gb ram. Will use it as a fileserver and vm windows 7. Will that be good enough? Regards Gartner Edited September 30, 2020 by gartner Quote Link to comment
kasuke Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Hi there, it should be enough, I'm currently running Unraid for vms (windows desktop and linux server) , dockers, plex, music, fileserver and so far it worked well with this config : i5-3570K (but non OC) 16 Go DDR3 Gigabyte Z77-D3H SATA2 kind make this slow when I transfer big data but it works so I see no problem with your configuration 1 Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) On 9/29/2020 at 11:03 PM, gartner said: Hi I am new here, and want to build my first Unraid server. Mostly from some spare parts. I will use 6 x 4tb nas Seagate IronWolf disks (2 is parity) and 2x500 gb samsung ssd as cache.... I got an i5-4460 Processor and a Fatal1ty Z97 Killer motherboard laying around. Think to use 16 gb ram. Will use it as a fileserver and vm windows 7. Will that be good enough? Regards Gartner Should be ok so far. The CPU only has four cores. For VMs a little bit but ok. Edited October 1, 2020 by Zonediver 1 Quote Link to comment
gartner Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 Hi and thanks for answering me. I found myself an i7-4790K for free, so I will use that. Hoping it will be enough for my project. Regards Gartner Quote Link to comment
Zonediver Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 (edited) On 10/3/2020 at 3:26 PM, gartner said: Hi and thanks for answering me. I found myself an i7-4790K for free, so I will use that. Hoping it will be enough for my project. Regards Gartner The i7 is a better solution but be carefull - don't overclock the CPU or RAM. Edited October 8, 2020 by Zonediver 1 Quote Link to comment
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