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I guess my only other question is about the parity drive. Can it be equal in size to my 6TB drive or should I go for an 8TB drive? Or have the 6TB drive be the parity and buy a 4TB. I'm pretty sure all my data I have now will be close to 6TB if I were to add it all up.
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If it was me, I'd buy a 6TB drive for the data drive. Unless you are planning on adding 8TB drives in the future, getting a 8TB drive for parity or data would be a waste.
My setup with what you have would be 6TB parity 6TB data drive + 1TB data drive = 7TB total storage. Then you can buy additional drives up to 6TB in size for your data drives when adding storage to the array.
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unRAID 6.0 final is out. They have been really working on adding features/etc and making it look much nicer, and do a lot more.
I have a bunch of 2TB drives (7TB of storage space), and run a slew of apps on it via dockers (sickrage, couchpotato, mysql, plex, btsync, headless xbmc(still haven't moved to kodi, just lazy)).
Next step is to replace my 2TB drives with some 4TB drives, and expand my storage.
They also have KVM compiled into the kernel, so you can run VMs on this setup as well. They even have a VM manager in the GUI to make it easy. Check them out, and they have a handful of unRAID 6 videos on youtube, including some running VM's (win8) on a cheap celeron dual core server.
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I was wondering how much noise these make? I am extremely limited on where I can place this. At this time it looks like I'll have to keep this in the same room we watch movies. If I could keep this in the closet under the stairs that would be awesome, but unfortunately that can't happen.
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Depends on what case/components you use.
I'm in a small apartment so my placement options were limited. I have a Intel Celeron powered unRAID system in a good case known to be quieter than most with 4 large fans running at low RPM's that I keep right next to my entertainment center and can't hear it from my couch. I have had a few times I've wondered if it was even on because I disabled the power LED so I don't have it shining in my face while watching TV. The large fans move sufficient air at low RPM's keep everything nice and cool inside without making a lot of noise.
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How accurate are these builds today? Anything worth changing as the OP is about 4 years old now?
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I've been thinking of building an unRAID server. Presently have had Synology for several years & love it... but, expanding it is pricey. Is post #1 still relevant? Or, is there a newer guide? Are there prebuilt unRAID servers available for sale anywhere?
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Great, will look on unraid forum, thanks.
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Trying to decide between UnRaid and FreeNas. Anybody have opinion as to which one is better?