Hi guys
I'm currently running Windows Server 2019 on my old HP ProDesk 400 G1 SFF work gave away a few years ago - Intel Pentium G3220, 6GB RAM, 240GB Boot SSD and 6TB HDD storage. It runs my Plex server and Unifi controller, along with acting as storage for my photos documents etc - which I have pCloud running for a cloud backup. For all of this it's actually worked perfectly for several years now, sitting quietly in the corner of my room doing the job great.
I've been wanting to move to Unraid for so long for various reasons and having the option to do so much more, setting up dockers and various things to play with. But reluctant as I need to work out how to transition from my current Windows setup to Unraid without losing any data...
Is it possible to setup Unraid with my existing drive? I have a feeling I can't, as aware Unraid uses XFS and not NTFS? Would my only viable option to be to spend on another large HDD (and 1TB SSD for cache maybe?) and set these up with Unraid, create the relevant dockers I want - then access the existing 6TB drive to shift data over, then wipe it after and partition as XFS into Unraid array? Or am I over complicating it and it can be done much simpler?
I'm also wondering if it's worth finding a cheap 1150 socket CPU to upgrade the G3220, maybe something like the 4690k? Wonder if this HP tower mobo and the PSU will handle it lol. Eventually I'll do a proper upgrade and maybe stick it in something like Jonsbo N1 NAS case, I see Linus did a video on it a while ago and it looks ideal.
Appreciate any advice or tips folks
I'm currently running Windows Server 2019 on my old HP ProDesk 400 G1 SFF work gave away a few years ago - Intel Pentium G3220, 6GB RAM, 240GB Boot SSD and 6TB HDD storage. It runs my Plex server and Unifi controller, along with acting as storage for my photos documents etc - which I have pCloud running for a cloud backup. For all of this it's actually worked perfectly for several years now, sitting quietly in the corner of my room doing the job great.
I've been wanting to move to Unraid for so long for various reasons and having the option to do so much more, setting up dockers and various things to play with. But reluctant as I need to work out how to transition from my current Windows setup to Unraid without losing any data...
Is it possible to setup Unraid with my existing drive? I have a feeling I can't, as aware Unraid uses XFS and not NTFS? Would my only viable option to be to spend on another large HDD (and 1TB SSD for cache maybe?) and set these up with Unraid, create the relevant dockers I want - then access the existing 6TB drive to shift data over, then wipe it after and partition as XFS into Unraid array? Or am I over complicating it and it can be done much simpler?
I'm also wondering if it's worth finding a cheap 1150 socket CPU to upgrade the G3220, maybe something like the 4690k? Wonder if this HP tower mobo and the PSU will handle it lol. Eventually I'll do a proper upgrade and maybe stick it in something like Jonsbo N1 NAS case, I see Linus did a video on it a while ago and it looks ideal.
Appreciate any advice or tips folks