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Thanks for the reply. I hadn't looked much in to using UnRaid for surveillance so I'll have to look more in to that. I am doing direct play to my Roku 4 and rarely transcode. My plan was to VPN in and spin up whatever Windows VM I needed on the fly, they won't be doing anything other than booting up and copying system files. After delving in a bit more to the recommended specs, seems that the i3 could just handle what I'm looking to do, but I'd probably drop in an i7 at some point. I think the best thing to do is spin up the trial. I have a spare Dell desktop (conveniently with an i3) and three random HDDs that I found today, so that should give me a better look at UnRaid. I do like to tinker!

My current “server/NAS” is just a computer running Windows 8.1 that is on all the time. I use it as a Plex server, torrents and a variety of other things. Everything is run from the OS, no VMs, no containers, so it’s just set up for failure. Hardware list Mobo : ASRock Rack H87WS-DL http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=H87WS-DL#Specifications CPU : Intel i3-4330 https://ark.intel.com/products/77769/Intel-Core-i3-4330-Processor-4M-Cache-3_50-GHz RAM : 20GB OS Disks : 2x WD 320GB Blue in Raid 1 - Windows 8.1 Storage : 5x WD 3TB RED Pool software : Stablebit Drivepool Monitoring software : Stablebit Scanner Using under 6TB of available storage Variety of Intel PCI-E gigabit NICs lying around All housed in a Fractal R4 - nice and quiet I want to switch to UnRaid. I will buy a 500GB SSD. I was thinking of removing three of the Reds and pooling the data on the remaining two. I can temporarily put those two Reds along with the Drivepool software on my primary rig. Next install the 500GB SSD and UnRaid along with the three Reds in the i3 box. Setup UnRaid and transfer my dataset from the main rig to UnRaid Another option is to purchase a 6-8TB external HDD and just move the data there first and then build the UnRaid box with the SSD and 5 Reds, but I would rather not spend the money. I’d like to continue using Plex, Torrents, I’d like to have a Win 7/10 VM spun up for accessing remotely (work related, sometimes need OS files). Will have a Pi3 for setup as VPN server. May consider a WD Purple and a couple IP cameras in the future Any thoughts on my transition? Thank you