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 Build your own NAS and Homelab with cheap PCs!, UnRaid, Xpenology, NAS4Free, Freenas,OMV

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Two5Kid
post Jun 10 2019, 06:34 PM

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Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm looking to run concurrently Windows 10 (for gaming) and MacOS Mojave (for the rest), is this HomeLab build the right path or am I heading in the wrong direction.
Two5Kid
post Jun 11 2019, 01:15 PM

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QUOTE(C-Fu @ Jun 11 2019, 03:28 AM)
lebih kurang. apart from needing two gpus for each OS (for best performance), the base OS needs to be xcp-ng, esxi or unraid. setup a VM with resources that you want for Win10 and Mojave, and perhaps another VM for Xpenology.
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Thanks for the quick reply. Have you heard about ProxMox? What I want to build is something like this YouTube video, just less resource intensive. I don't do 4K video editing nor do I play graphics-intensive games.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYyfoZcgJI

Edit: No idea why it isn't showing up.

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Two5Kid
post Jun 11 2019, 02:56 PM

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QUOTE(Fubar20 @ Jun 11 2019, 02:11 PM)
Can run Hassio also  brows.gif
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True but it's a bit overkill. Haha! Thanks for the help!

Two5Kid
post Jun 12 2019, 03:56 PM

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QUOTE(C-Fu @ Jun 12 2019, 03:33 PM)
proxmox is also fine. just that in most comparison promox is often considered to be for a more advanced user. you can use whichever host OS that you want.

personally after trying them all (with my limited skillset), in order of ease of use to paling mafan:

esxi
xcp-ng (can use xen tutorial)
unraid (once you understand this should be the best IMO)
proxmox

but if proxmox makes sense to you, use it! nobody's stopping you biggrin.gif

doesn't matter if you're an exclusively solitaire player, if you want your VM OS to see your GPU, you need a host OS with GPU passthrough. in this sense, Xpenology can only passthrough intel iGPU. and while all of the above OS can indeed do software RAID, it's just not as good as a dedicated NAS OS like freenas or xpe. hence, my earlier reply
Note that if you like your hair, only use radeon with hackintosh.
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Thanks for the heads-up. Interesting to know. Will research on it further.
Two5Kid
post Jun 13 2019, 10:36 AM

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Probably not going to run the CPU as a NAS, I was just itching for something which I only need to boot once, and I can use both Windows and MacOS on two screens. Maybe play a non-resource intensive game while waiting for MacOS to render some travel videos.

The other reason why I was considering this was that I could probably save half a PC or even half the price of an iMac, with the ability to upgrade the hardware when the time comes. Instead of buying a PC and an iMac at the same time.

 

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