unraid Client UNRaid Build

[CrypticNetworks]

Hello,

 

I'm enlisting in some help for a client of mine.  I'm fairly versed on the fundamentals of UNRaid as I run it myself, however, I wanted to run a few things by some more "informed" people to make sure I'm not crazy.  I am looking at the following configuration for this post:

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PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vLc6rV

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($119.00 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($87.38 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($30.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($27.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA BQ 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Monoprice) 
Custom: UnRaid OS 6 ($59.00)
Total: $844.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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So I need to do the following with this machine:

1. Backup a desktop tower
2. Backup a personal laptop
3. Store photos and videos
4. Nextcloud for "Secure" Data Storage (Prerequisite is MariaDB) 
5. OpenVPN (so I can get into the machine and network remotely if things go a rye)
6. Plex for Music and Movies
7. Notifications via app somehow

My plan is to run this is a 2 Parity Drive setup with effectively 8 TB (~7.3 TB formatted) for the utmost in protection and the 240Gb SSd as a cache drive.  The following issue lies though.  With all of this running am I going to be:

1. Stable
2. Reliable

I need help setting up the Nextcloud and MariaDB because everytime I setup the MariaDB, it doesn't connect to Nextcloud and I get two errors that say 504 Gateway or MySQL Server unreachable or connection refused.  Please let me know your thoughts and if there is something cleaner I could use.  Anything I may need to rethink?  Thank you for your time

 

-Mike

[porina]

The cache should also be redundant as otherwise there is only one copy of the data until it is moved to the HDs.

 

While I appreciate the value in having two parity drives, it feels like a bad ratio with only 4 storage drives in total. Are you expecting to expand to more drives in future as needs grow? You might want to go straight to the unlimited drive version of unraid. I can't remember if the cache drives count towards your license, but I'm on the 6 drive one (4 data + 2 parity drives) and it costs a fair bit more to upgrade to unlimited than it would to get it from the start.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id go bigger drives, better price per tb, lower power, easier to upgrade, and faster.

[GDRRiley]

 better PSU (maybe look at a gold or above for better efficiency)

as mentioned by @Electronics Wizardy get bigger drives

and get 2 SSDs that are better quality

 

[Salacious B Crum]

I have 10 drives in my rig but only use 1 parity at this time, as stated I have 1 parity for 7 array drives but at present only 3 drives have data unless you are filling most of your drives right up I would stick with 1 parity until you have 4 or more drives with substantial data just my opinion though I do have 2 cache ssd's in raid 1 for protection of my appdata