My wife would kill me if I did a setup like that. I might be able to do a small server for security, videos/media/photos and our electronic documents. Already have a gaming PC so I already have most of what I want.
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Nice part of UnRaid is that it works off a USB drive. So if you find a cheap PC that has a QuickSync enabled Intel chipset (for transcoding videos), you can add any drive sizes you like (parity has to be equal or larger than the largest data drive). I have about 48TB.
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I run my cameras, home assistant, media server, documents, occasional VM, Tailscale, personal computer local backups, etc.
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My old gaming PC has an AMD chip so, based on your above reply, I am not sure I could use it. Not terribly old, I just wanted to upgrade to DDR5 when I got a new graphics card.
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You still can. It's usually easier to offload transcoding of video to a CPU. Just pop your old GPU in! I have a Quadro P400 I picked up for like $80 off eBay. The Intel thing is mostly around if you had one, it likely has QuickSync built in.
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Offload to a GPU*
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I need to look into tailscale. I have connectivity for things (like audiobookshelf) done via cloudflare tunnels.
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Does make it a bit less complicated. Great when you are on the road and want access as well to your network.
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I actually bought a adapter so I could plug the USB for Unraid directly into one of the free USB headers on the mobile. Mostly cause I foresaw kids potentially yanking the drive out of a port.
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