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Mar 31, 2020 at 1:08 PM Post #22,906 of 36,204
I've been so board couped up in the house! To make life more imteresting, I'm putting together a Self-built NAS / Media Server. I'm using unRAID for the OS. It's a cool setup. I moved my Roon server over to the unRAID server and I'm working on setting up a Windows VM for a few other media players. My goal is to take all of my music off my local pc and stream it off this server and play music to a Roon endpoint via Ropieee. Takes my pc with the ground loop issues out of the equation. It has made a huge difference in sound quality so far.

In the IT industry we call this a hyperconverged server. NAS/SAN, VMs, Backups, Containerized applications. It's a really useful OS for home. I've seen a few companies offer this in a full stack offering but I would never use it in a production environment. To many eggs in one basket. It would be great for developers.
 
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jerick70 said:
I've been so board couped up in the house! To make life more imteresting, I'm putting together a Self-built NAS / Media Server. I'm using unRAID for the OS. It's a cool setup. I moved my Roon server over to the unRAID server and I'm working on setting up a Windows VM for a few other media players. My goal is to take all of my music off my local pc and stream it off this server and play music to a Roon endpoint via Ropieee. Takes my pc with the ground loop issues out of the equation. It has made a huge difference in sound quality so far.

In the IT industry we call this a hyperconverged server. NAS/SAN, VMs, Backups, Containerized applications. It's a really useful OS for home. I've seen a few companies offer this in a full stack offering but I would never use it in a production environment. To many eggs in one basket. It would be great for developers.
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How modern does the H/W need to be, to run unRAID?
I've got a partially assembled "server", with an old AMD Socket 939 CPU in it.
Was planning to install one of the Linux server distributions.
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What I'd really like to do, but don't have the ~$3,000+ for it - is to assemble an AMD Epyc (16-Core) workstation as my main PC (to run Linux and VMs), and move my current Intel Core i7-3930K system to being a NAS / Media Server.
 
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Mar 31, 2020 at 4:39 PM Post #22,909 of 36,204
DBaldock9 said:
How modern does the H/W need to be, to run unRAID?
I've got a partially assembled "server", with an old AMD Socket 939 CPU in it.
Was planning to install one of the Linux server distributions.
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What I'd really like to do, but don't have the ~$3,000+ for it - is to assemble an AMD Epyc (16-Core) workstation as my main PC (to run Linux and VMs), and move my current Intel Core i7-3930K system to being a NAS / Media Server.
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Yes it should work well. If you do DSD on Roon w/ DSP, Roon will crap out though. The more cores and RAM the better if you want to run VMs and Docker Apps. I'm currently using a socket AM3 motherboard with a Phenom II X4 965 and everthing works like a charm except DSD on Roon. I'm going to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 2700X so this doesn't happen.

unRAID is based on BSD so very stable and should work on your hardware. Go download the USB creator and give it a trial on your hardware and see if it does what you want. It's really slick.

https://unraid.net/

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Mar 31, 2020 at 4:53 PM Post #22,912 of 36,204
Im getting abstract in my isolation.

 
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