2014-01-13, 10:25
I just heard about unRaid through this post for the first time and it seems perfect to me. Currently I have a Windows Home Server 2011 with an Intel Core i3-2100 and 5x 2TB + 500GB System HDD. I use the Intel Matrix Raid 5 from the Motherboard and while it worked for a couple of years, I don't like being dependent on the Intel driver and it's inflexible to increase in size. My array is nearly full and I would have to replace all HDDs at once which is quite expensive.
So I read up about unRaid through this post and it seems perfect for me. Of course I will lose some write performance (currently I can copy files at around 90MB/s to the WHS) but I get the flexibility to upgrade one HDD at a time if I understood correctly.
Does anyone have any concerns though about any features I might lose when replacing WHS? I only used it as storage for Backups and media files for XBMC anyway now. But I still want to be sure not to miss anything before rebuilding my PC.
So I read up about unRaid through this post and it seems perfect for me. Of course I will lose some write performance (currently I can copy files at around 90MB/s to the WHS) but I get the flexibility to upgrade one HDD at a time if I understood correctly.
Does anyone have any concerns though about any features I might lose when replacing WHS? I only used it as storage for Backups and media files for XBMC anyway now. But I still want to be sure not to miss anything before rebuilding my PC.