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<blockquote data-quote="Tony" data-source="post: 162133" data-attributes="member: 1">After all of that setup and the issues that I have had with FreeNAS (11.2) I have decided to start over and give UnRAID a try. This OS runs off of a USB drive and everything is stored in memory. I know, FreeNAS is the same, but I just created a small 10GB partition (VM) for FreeNAS and then attached one of my 8TB drives to it. I was just testing and no, that was not the cause for the issues I was having. It was a permission error. But, in doing a little reading I found out that UnRAID will do everything I need it to do. I think I can even run the RCH Backup Server within UnRAID as a VM just like I was going to do before. If it won't, not a big loss, I can just setup a very small PC to do that work. That server only needs 512mb or RAM to run and only needs a single core CPU.The most important thing is, UnRAID will run Plex way smoother than running it in a VM, or so I have read. I'm going to give it a try. I'm not deleting my main drive that I have VMWare installed on so if I want to go back to that, I can. I'm also not destroying any files, I'm actually backing them up as we speak. And the funny thing is, I'm backing them up slower than my new internet is going to be hahahaha. I'm only running about 650Mbps on the backup currently. So not doing anything Rc related today (other than writing that quick article that I thought was already written. But when it didn't publish last night I knew... Yup... I forgot to write that one lol. What are you doing?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony, post: 162133, member: 1"] After all of that setup and the issues that I have had with FreeNAS (11.2) I have decided to start over and give UnRAID a try. This OS runs off of a USB drive and everything is stored in memory. I know, FreeNAS is the same, but I just created a small 10GB partition (VM) for FreeNAS and then attached one of my 8TB drives to it. I was just testing and no, that was not the cause for the issues I was having. It was a permission error. But, in doing a little reading I found out that UnRAID will do everything I need it to do. I think I can even run the RCH Backup Server within UnRAID as a VM just like I was going to do before. If it won't, not a big loss, I can just setup a very small PC to do that work. That server only needs 512mb or RAM to run and only needs a single core CPU. The most important thing is, UnRAID will run Plex way smoother than running it in a VM, or so I have read. I'm going to give it a try. I'm not deleting my main drive that I have VMWare installed on so if I want to go back to that, I can. I'm also not destroying any files, I'm actually backing them up as we speak. And the funny thing is, I'm backing them up slower than my new internet is going to be hahahaha. I'm only running about 650Mbps on the backup currently. So not doing anything Rc related today (other than writing that quick article that I thought was already written. But when it didn't publish last night I knew... Yup... I forgot to write that one lol. What are you doing? [/QUOTE]

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