Convert an Old Gaming PC to a Home Server using Unraid - (SMB, Terraria, Home Assistant, Jellyfin)
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- Have an old gaming PC lying around? Maybe consider turning it into a NAS/home server using Unraid. #unraid #homeserver #pc
Links
► Download Unraid - unraid.net/
► Nvidia Driver Tutorial - forums.unraid.net/topic/98978...
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Why?
1:33 What We'll Be Doing
2:30 Specs
3:40 Hardware Upgrades
4:54 Quick Disclaimer
5:18 Installing Unraid
9:45 Setting Up The Array (Storage)
12:19 Creating A User
13:04 Creating and Modifying Shares
16:42 Apps
17:20 Terraria Server
23:47 Creating Home Assistant VM
26:37 Jellyfin and Nvidia Drivers
35:14 Confirming HASS Install
36:23 Outro - Věda a technologie
I found your channel by accident but I'm really happy that I did, all of your content is well described and your prodution is through the roof. Keep at it.
Thanks!
Oração à Virgem Maria pela Santa Pureza
“Santa Pureza, a rainha das virtudes, a virtude angélica, é uma jóia tão preciosa que aquele que a possui se torna como os anjos de Deus no Céu, ainda que revestidos da mortalidade da carne.” São João Bosco.
Fazemos parte de uma realidade cujo desprezo pela virtude da pureza está cada vez mais ascendente. Assim, nossa vigilância, a fim de que não caiamos na mesmice oferecida pelo pecado, deve ser revestida pela fortaleza advinda da oração. Busquemos, principalmente, espelharmo-nos na vida e nas virtudes e plenitude de dons de Maria Puríssima, “criatura mais preciosa da criação” (São Cirilo de Alexandria), que é nossa mediadora ao Mestre Jesus, verdadeiro Deus e verdadeiro Homem, puro por excelência e digno de adoração.
Rezemos a seguinte Oração a Maria Santíssima pela Santa Pureza:
1. Coração Puríssimo de Maria, por vosso amor e com vosso auxílio, estou resolvido a não consentir, neste dia, em nenhum pensamento impuro. Ajudai-me, Senhora, a afastá-los logo.
Ave Maria, cheia de graça,
o Senhor é convosco,
bendita sois vós entre as mulheres
e bendito é o fruto do vosso ventre, Jesus.
Santa Maria, Mãe de Deus,
rogai por nós pecadores,
agora e na hora da nossa morte. Amém.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dóminus tecum.
Benedícta tu in muliéribus,
et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatóribus,
nunc, et in hora mortis nostræ.
Amen.
2. Coração Puríssimo de Maria por vosso amor e com vosso auxílio, estou resolvido a não proferir, neste dia, palavra alguma indecente. Purificai, Senhora, a minha língua.
Ave Maria...
3. Coração Puríssimo de Maria por vosso amor e com vosso auxílio, estou resolvido a guardar, neste dia, especial modéstia em todas as minhas ações. Ó Senhora minha! Ó minha Mãe! Impetrai-me a graça de sempre e em tudo dar gosto ao vosso Puríssimo Coração.
Ave Maria...
Meu Jesus,
Fazei-me puro. Puro nos olhos, pensamentos e nas ações.
Fazei-me humilde, que eu sempre desconfie de mim mesmo e não me exponha ao perigo do pecado.
Fazei-me penitente, dai-me amor ao sofrimento; tanto sofrestes por mim, que quero sofrer por vós.
Fazei-me generoso, para que eu nada vos recuse e toda a minha vida seja vossa.
Fazei-me zeloso pela Glória de Deus e pela Salvação das almas.
Meu Jesus, fazei-me obediente aos meus pais e superiores.
Amém!
Uma alma pura é uma pérola preciosa. Enquanto está escondida na concha no fundo do mar, ninguém pensa em admirá-la. Mas se a trouxermos para a luz, esta pérola brilhará e atrairá todos os olhares. Portanto, a alma pura que está escondida aos olhos do mundo um dia irá brilhar ante os anjos no sol da eternidade. São João Maria Vianney
Deus Vos salve Virgem da Trindade templo, alegria dos anjos, da pureza exemplo!
(Trecho do Ofício da Imaculada Conceição)
www.catolicoarretado.com.br/2017/06/oracao-virgem-maria-pela-santa-pureza.html?m=1#:~:text=Meu%20Jesus%2C,que%20quero%20sofrer%20por%20v%C3%B3s.
Haha here, here, same thing. 👍
"Accident"
@@HardwareHaven is it possible to boot into an sas drive with SAS HBA card
on a mobo that doesnt hav sas controller?
The vibe when I click on this video is not describable. He sounds really nice and clear, and then the music just ads on, which makes his videos really incredible. I really hope that you become more successful. Also I went scrapping the other day and I found a 23' monitor from Lenovo, and it works just as new.
Thanks! And nice find as well!
@@tesselis try again. You should be able to because you're on the hh server. I just have somewhat of a policy where I don't add non-personal friends
@@HardwareHaven still doesn't work. Can I become one?
@@tesselis make sure your privacy settings in the server are set so you can receive direct messages
@@HardwareHaven bro I got a message from u it said I won a giveaway is it real
I don't really comment on videos, but I've binge watched all of the videos on this channel. Even though I know most of the software used here like unRAID, and since I am living off budget mode now I like seeing old machines being given new life with a few upgrades. Keep it up mate.
would definitely love to see some more unraid tutorial videos like this, great video and easy to follow, great work.
A future unraid tutorial would me much appreciated. Seems like a very user friendly server OS and has lots of great functionality.
Go to spaceinvader’s channel. He IS Unraid. Taught me everything I need to know.
@@randleqgod Thanks for telling me, i needed a channel dedicated to Unraid videos
you explain the steps so clearly that even I without any knowledge on the subject can follow, great videos! Would love to see what other cool services you could run on these servers.
love all of your videos keep up the work. i recently built my first nas using one of your videos and it works great.
Great video! I actually just finished putting together my own home server (sketch chinese x79 with a 10c xeon cpu with like 4 drives on a raid card) and was thinking of installing Unraid! This tutorial really made the process easy to follow, I hope you do more tutorials in the future!
This is some pretty awesome content Haven! I've also been looking for something like this for a LONG time and would love to see a tutorial series about it! I love repurposing old machines into various home servers, and when I thought OMV was the best solution I was pulling my fur out with trying to learn docker... For some reason I've never been able to wrap my head around Portainer, but this just directly used Docker without third party needs AND lets me make my own VMs... Soooo yeah! I'd love to see more of this! Thanks a ton for showcasing this outstanding software
I got an old optiplex micro from work that they were going to toss but I wasn't sure exactly what to do with it. Thank you so much for making this since it does exactly everything that I wanted to do (share GOG installers, manga, and host Terraria for the family) without getting overwhelmed with choices
This is a great introductory video. Very much appreciated it. I have been running an unRAID server now for almost 4 years. It has been a game changer. Every so often it gums up and I need to restart, but I'm running it as my home media server which I have configured with revprox so I can watch my Emby server from anywhere (may try JellyFin soon), my gaming VM with my GTX 1660 Ti passed through, our home UniFi WiFi server, home file server, and a couple other things which I'm drawing a blank on right now. In any case, the more folks who are putting out good content about unRAID and how to make to do what it does would be greatly appreciated, and your content is QUITE good! Thank you. Kepp 'em commin'.
Haven, awesome video. Congrats on the new member of your household. I too found this by accident and will be building a server in the near future, so more tutorials, please. Loved it.
Great video. I'm happy you picked up some of my recommandations from your older videos :)
Loves your videos! I'm in the process on setting up my own nas and your videos have been a huge help.
Thanks for the video . You are actually the only youtuber that I enjoy to watch his/her linux tutorials.
This is a very nice intro to unraid OS, very powerful integration. Nicely done.
Really informative. Just what I was looking for. More home server content with useful real life use cases please. Thank you
The inside of that thing is IMMACULATELY clean! You really take care of your hardware.
My fav tech youtuber! I love all the home server content!
I'd love to see an unraid tutorial for sure, as well as a thorough home assistant one, that would be awesome. Great video btw !
Great tutorial and channel. Your presentation is smooth and accessible to DIY/Enthusiast/Hobbyist like myself. I have been working on my own homelab/studio that started as a collection of old desktops of various architecture/form factors repurposed as Proxmox nodes. Now I have a serious collection of compute and storage resources that I dont dare run at one time unless it gets real cold. Then I do "folding at home" play hardcore graphical video games, mine monero or run hashcat 😝 then its like the tropics in my apartment ...lulz
In the previous video about building an economical NAS from various components, I have a very similar mobo made by foxconn for HP called the Nutmeg-C or P it is a slimline mini-ITX with same soldered on CPU the J2900 Quad-Core Celeron Swamptrail? 1.6GHz very powerful almost industrial PC. Well it doesnt have PCIe slots it has a mini-PCIe for WiFi and two SATA2 data ports but an odd proprietary power connection that is closest to a Audio Line-In connection. I think I should just need to wire my own for it from a 4pin Molex connector. I've only used that one with different LiveOS from USB. It remains in my collection because it is so elegant and economical for doing many things... Like making use of "thin clients" over Raspberry Pi's
Love your videos! Keep up the great work!
Awesome video, I love these kinds of videos from you. Also for the algorithm :D
Great video!
I actually built my current gaming rig with the intent of it eventually becoming an entry-level server. As it now has 25 TB SSD space, its conversion to the dark side is nearly complete.
25 tb ssd what the hell are you working on nasas modded mc server or what
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@@gobnbi Video: 4k60 / 8k50 VR
Audio: 32 bit float
@@redslate bruh
Wow. Great stuff here! Subbed on the first video!
Greetings from Brazil! it's very interesting to watch your videos, please continue.
Keep it up, looking forward to seeing more of your content.
And yes it would be great if you do a tutorial.
Good luck.
Love your videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Underrated CZcams ngl. good videos
Thank you very much for pointing out things which I need. I now have windows 10, 11 and dockers running without the collisions. Also, I noticed before when I used to download that my VMS would stutter. Not anymore. Thanks man. Seriously. I had intentions on running videos for this Hypervisor, but I will continue to get my certs first.
Thanks for this. I'm absolutely doing this.
Nice video!! I don't really want to have a desktop server as it will take space, but I think I would use laptops as servers instead.
Underrated channel.
Subbed
Would love more UnRaid content :)
In July 2022 I migrated all of my VMs, storage and self hosted services to Unraid after running proxmox for a few years. It’s been a game changer for me. While I have a proxmox box for backups and misc, Unraid is my favorite and primary HV/NAS.
IMO the license fee is well worth it. When I find a FOSS project that’s useful I’ll donate funds to support it so I find no fault in paying for stuff that adds value to my lab or workflow.
Something to consider about the power supply, depending on how many drives you're using, the stock PSU that comes with a lot of prebuilt PCs may not have enough connectors, much less enough power. I'm using TrueNAS on an old Optiplex 7010 and had to pop in a PSU upgrade to have enough SATA power connectors.
Don't these Optiplexes all use non-standard PSUs with proprietary connectors? You know, Dell being Dell and all that?
@@nahco3994 The older ones did not, depending on the configuration. The one in mine (the mini-tower 7010 model) did not have many connectors, but they were all standardized, so a quick swap to an off-the-shelf PSU was simple.
i allready have my old gaming pc since three years running as my unraid server with 8x 2TB drives.. with a xeon 1231v3 32 GB ram in my old antec 300 case every 3.5 bay and every 5.25 bay with 3.5 adapters occupied in it... running in our houses basement... all drives mounted with vibration absorbers... i love it also with plex, nextcloud, and i love "lan cache" living in a shared house with other gamers... this was the best thing besides using pfsense as our router to get our internet connection balanced between all of us... as the call of duty remake came out 6 people here where playing it... with every patch with a size about 25- 50 GB this really saved our connections bandwith.
Now I know what to do when I upgrade to a newer modern PC
Very good step by step video set up video.
This seems like a good idea, I might make something like this and put it in my house.
I made it to the end, awesome video.
Guys, i'm having a hard time deciding what to put on my NAS. Tried Openmediavault 6 and loved it, but all the other UIs look "pretty" so i'm giving Unraid a trial today. Then maybe Trunas. I dont have any data on my NAS yet so I havent settled on anything. Anyways thanks for making these videos. Keep up the good work!
TrueNas is the way to go.
Yes I would like more unraid/ any tutorials
I would enjoy watching a tutorial series on unraid. Really new to this stuff and could use some help.
About to to this with some old hardware laying around. I don’t know how, but today I scored 24TB worth of NAS drives on Amazon for under $100. I don’t know if the orders will be cancelled, but they haven’t yet.
Also, congrats on your baby! Mine is due very very soon. I am beyond excited.
Hope not, what a deal! And congrats to you as well!
I needed this channel a year ago but I am really happy I have found it now. 😅 now I just have to convince my BF to get off the server so I can play with it for the weekend 🙃
Great channel and info.
I just happened to do this same project last week, for the SSD, I assume you know this but for others who don't, I used the small older SSD I had as a cache drive. So I left it installed, added it to the pool, which should give me better write speeds.
Tutorials would be wonderful!
This gave me an idea for a project
thanks, this is helpful to me because everything that i see i want to download
What would be super helpful is an unraid vs proxmox video please. Well done on explaining things, keep going sir
Great suggestion!
This is an excellent video that goes over a complete relatively basic setup - thanks!
I have one request for a potential follow-up: one of the possible issues in repurposing an old pc as a 24/7 server is power consumption (with power prices in some places in Europe beign 0.30 € / kWh running a 100W device 24/7 would cost 260€ a year, for example, and even with US prices being nearer 0.15 USD / kWh it's stilla pretty penny) - would you be able to delve a bit into how much power your system uses? If you have access to a more conventional NAS a comparison might also be very interesting.
Dang I meant to mention power consumption..
This system idled at around 35W. I didn’t test power draw while running data transfers or the terraria server, but during a cinebench run (so basically full cpu load), it pulled around 90w from the wall.
That's the reason why I hesitate to move any of my home network services from my Raspberry Pi to more capable hardware. Even the RPi 4B idles at roughly 3 W, and peaks out at a meager 7.5 W or so. That's really tough to beat, given the fact that its performance is more than good enough for most tasks. It might struggle a bit with media transcoding though, since there's no hardware support for that.
@@nahco3994 If you have one and it meets your needs, that's perfect!
Those SSHD's are still excellent boot drives especially for retro gaming rigs! Could be a good idea to find another regular 2TB HDD and swap out that SSHD and use it in a different system maybe?
this is what i need for months you are pro
Ooooh yeah all of as have 2tb hard drives laying around. Nice video, thanks for the tutorial.
love the vids dude keep it up
Appreciate it!
more unraid tutorial videos like this, please
Congrats on the baby!!
Thanks!!
Another unraid vid please
This channel seems promising
I love your videos and hope you will post more frequently
I hope so as well, but a full time job and a baby make that tough haha
@@HardwareHaven I didn't know that, then ok
didn't watch the whole video, im watching it now
Dude I love the server stuff
Nice! Me too haha
The 1650 can run from the 75W power that the PCIe x16 slot provides, so you may not have needed to upgrade the PSU at all
I'd like to see you use unRAID to host a family (home movies) library and serve with PLEX to other family members around the US. I'm currently converting old Hi-8, and cataloging mini-DV and digital videos covering around 30 years and want to let the family see themselves growing up! Thanks for all your hard work and smooth competent videos that have rekindled my home lab spirit. Turly enjoy binge watching your material.
jeez I stumble across this video & it’s the same pc as I brought & converted
Great video man, could you do the same video with truenas scale, ik u made one already but like with setting up jellyfin, radarr and sonarr, I'd really appreciate that cause I'm a real novice in terms of truenas and setting up docker containers, but honestly unRAID looks sortta beautiful, also I'm wondering would home assistant be of any use if I don't have smart lights and stuff like that, and can it work if I somehow hardwire it?
I might look into more fun stuff on TureNAS
And as far as Home Assistant, it's really just a hub in a sense. Its great because you can get away from having a bunch of different apps, or things like google and amazon, to control smart devices / iot stuff. Without having any devices like that to control, it's not incredibly useful.
Very good channel. I need nas/server to store my camera and drone footage and possibly edit of it as well. What do you recommend for this, unraid or trueNAS. ?
Unraid is a fair bit simper to setup, but TrueNAS (when setup fairly well) will have better performance.
I also would consider something from Asustor, Synology, etc.. It’s less fun but a lot simpler haha
unRAID simplifies the configuration and management through their GUI. If you are not someone super comfortable on CLI, unRAID can bridge that gap while giving you a server that is just as capable.
YESS, JELLYFIN!!!!!
Someday, someday I'll be able to do these type of projects
Hope so!
Taking out the SSD was a huge mistake. You don't wan't to run Unraid without SSD cache (or at teast use it for docker). You are loosing so much performance, I would argue using Unraid without SSD cache makes no sense (if you are not using ZFS pools in the newest release).
No. He said in the video at the 10:47 min mark that he’s doing that in future videos and didn’t need it for this video.
Hey Haven, just came across your channel recently. You seem extremely knowledgeable with all of these home server builds. I cant help but ask, How does someone learn all this stuff? Where did you begin when you started acquiring all of this knowledge?
Honestly CZcams lol. I started by watching techno Tim stuff, and then craft computing, Jeff Geerling, and others
@@HardwareHaven wow that is awesome, good to know! Thanks for the reply. Gonna keep binging your channel now lol!
Haha hopefully you enjoy it
Any chance you could show how to run multiple servers? Been watching your videos and wondering how people host multiple Minecraft servers, + more games on one system. Ik it’s a big ask but figured I’d try 😂 THANKS FOR THE VIDS UR GREAT MAN
Awesome content :)
Thanks!
Yay a new video
Good Job!
I would like to see an Unraid tutorial video.
Thanks! I'm hoping to get around to it soon
I love your videos! You are now popular in Germany too!
Thanks! Glad you like them
amazing video...loved the tutorials, im a noob AND NOW I WANT TO GET A SERVER LOL
Haha nice!
This is really neat, I subscribed to you, My wife wants to upgrade my PC if money permits us to do so at some point soon which would leave this current tower open to function as a server in a setup like this which could have 6tb worth of drives I have kicking around thrown in it. But at this point I have no idea when the time/money will allow me to upgrade as We're a 1 income household (mine) with a young child and children are expensive hahaha but when I do I will think about making a server out of this bad boy here. (Its a hand me down machine we built for my wife some years back as it tends in our household that my wife gets the new machines and I get the older ones) (Granted I tend to run my machines longer than some do, I ran my E8400 based 2008 Machine with 8gb ddr2 and a 4870x2 on XPx64 from Sept 2008 to Jan 2020 so just under 12 years before I took this one from the wife when she changed over to a gaming laptop so she could go game with friends at their houses (Just before Pandemic hit hahaha)
this video made it super easy to make my server.
thanks.
just one question. I don't know if there is something in the system i can change but the maximum file transfer speed I get is 40 to 60ms, is that normal? even if I have 2ssds as cache?
truenas core vs scale vs unraid vs open media vault? most people do this with top of the range Zeon's, but it would be interesting to see how the diy/ budget systems handle all of these OS'
I literally did the opposite of this. Back in 2013 I paired a Pentium D 35w tdp with a high end motherboard with something like ten sata ports and a large tower case to build an Unraid server. Then in 2020, my eight-year old wanted a gaming rig. I swapped in a 4790K from ebay and added a 1650 super; he's been gaming with that for the last three years.
Now I'm looking to try Unraid again... the technology circle of life.
Please do that tutorial series!
I cant wait in a couple yrs, this PC is gonna be a server 🙂
for some setups you can run headless using ipmi or only using a gpu for initial setup
Can I just convert an old gaming PC like this and use TrueNas Scale instead of Unraid. I've watched many of your vids and thought I might need more upgrades.
Hey, I want some space over network for storing videos and projects. I cant decide between truenas scale vs unraid. Deal breaker for me is that truenas dosent support sleep. I would use windows sharing but it always failed after some time as well slow acess time. Thanks for any advice
congrats on your baby bro
So here's my question. I have two 8tband two 4 tb drives prepared for this. However one of the 4tb drives is the important info that I need to save on my nas.
So once I put them in, it looks.likw I have to format them all.
If I do that I lose the info that I want to save.
So can I put in and setup the first two 8 tb drives , get it all setup then , add the other ones and copy the info over before I format it? What's your suggestion?
his home server is my dream PC
I have been thinking about doing the same thing
I'm thinking of making a nas pc with plex and home assistant, but are there any specifications that I should know about before I make one?
wow good video :)
Congrats for BABY😊
quick tip for the terraria server... it just used the default world it generated because you never changed/deleted the world it loads. hence why it never generated a new one
I also remove any discrete GPU and run the machine headlessly using MS Remote Desktop or similar, that saves power and heat.
I mentioned early on in the video why I kept the GPU in, but it’s still a headless setup. The monitor was only for initial install
Please do the unraid tutorial series!
Jack anderson it’s a complint. It’s so rare to find that in a actual human being
5:04
Congrats on the babyy
Thanks!
I didn't know this unraid, it seemed very interesting, I currently have a server running windows running plex for movies and series and I also use it to store files.
Can you tell me if I can access the movies through the TV app that I don't even do with the plex?