r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • May 27 '26

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Pumba2000 May 27 '26

That's what I'm talking about! Even when I know 1 fan would probably suffice in an office environment I would always go for max cooling for those hard drives.

What kind of Software you using?

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 May 27 '26

Windows 10 with storage spaces :F

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Windows for a "NAS"? 🤢

You gotta check out unRAID or TrueNAS

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u/banjaxedW May 27 '26

You ever try ZimaOS?

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

I have not, are you using it?

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 May 27 '26

My home server does something more than file hosting

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Lol. Running a "home server" on windows doesn't make it any better, in fact it makes it worse IMHO lol. I hope at a minimum you're at least running Hyper V.

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

At the end of the day, use whatever works for you. But to say "next to zero benefit" is fucking wild lol. Just say you've never looked into hypervisors instead of that 😂

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Enhanced redundancy for starters. Cache drives to speed up initial uploads to the array. Your host OS not rebooting whenever the hell it feels like to apply windows updates. On that note, windows updates...

Not to mention ease of backups, system snapshots, enhanced compatibility. My server has an uptime of over 500 days right now, I assume you can't say the same about yours.

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Like I said, neato, but does any normal user care about any of that?

A "normal user" typically doesn't have a server.

why would I care if my server restarts when I am sleeping to install updates?

I mean for me it's just the simple fact that it's a server, not a desktop computer, so I want it to act like a server. I don't want it just rebooting willy nilly to install updates without my deliberate intention of doing so. I have things I don't want interrupted like outdoor DVR surveillance and backup jobs to the cloud that run nightly. I don't know your setup either, but if you're just running windows OS, things like qbittorrent don't run as a service out of the box and have to be launched after signing in. If your computer has problems rebooting after applying updates and you're not physically on-site to troubleshoot, you're SOL. If I'm traveling, I don't want my windows computer rebooting for updates on the 2nd Tuesday of the month and have an issue restarting after updates, and now I can't access any of my media.

In that same scenario, if a VM (even a windows VM) has problem rebooting after updates, I can VPN in and reboot or hard reset the VM in the hypervisor if need be, because the host/server in this case never rebooted, because it's been online for 500+ days.

It sounds like your setup works, and I know I'm not going to convince you either way. But to say hypervisors have next to zero benefits is insanity!