OS for HTPC/Media Server

[wildman_33]

I built an HTPC about 2 years ago and at the time of setting it up, I installed Windows 8.1 Pro. I set it up to share its 3TB WD Red storage drive so that I could access it from other computers at home. I upgraded to Windows 10 but soon get fed up of auto updates rebooting it in the middle of watching things and the NTFS formatted disks were getting annoying to access from my Mac.

A couple of weeks ago I moved it over to Ubuntu 16.04 and reformatted the drives to EXT4, its given me nothing but issues since and the network shares were a pain to set up. I am now considering moving over to unRaid for it's server duties and running the HTPC aspect in a VM.

My question is will my hardware be up to the task? I have the following;

Athlon 5350
1 x 8gb DDR3
120gb SSD (Boot)
3TB WD Red (Storage)
3TB Hitachi (Storage Drive Backup)
1TB Hitachi (Time Machine backup for the Mac)

My biggest concern is the hardware passthrough for the GPU seeing as it will be a HTPC, the CPU seems fairly capable for its current uses and I don't need it to do any transcoding to other devices.

Has anyone run unRaid on a similar setup? I'm looking to have something I can leave running with very little maintenance.

 

[wildman_33]

That might be the way to go, it would be nice to have them both in one device to save power but I guess a raspberry pi doesn't use much anyway. I already have one of the original pi's running pihole.