Yw-slayer
December 30th, 2022, 12:43 AM
I have a new 13700K as replacement desktop. My old 6700K can be used as a server and it has a Win10 Pro licence. It also has 32GB RAM and I have an SSD with which I can experiment on. The 6500 (also with 32GB RAM and 4 x 6TGB HDD) is already a home server running Win10 Pro using Windows Storage Spaces in the RAID0 equivalent. I don't remember if I have set up a RAMdisk on the latter but I think I may have.
The question is whether there is any advantage of my trying out something else on the 6700K, such as Unraid (need to pay)? Ubuntu? Proxmox? FreeNAS?
At present the only thing I can think of is that there are issues logging into a Win10 "server" to administer it or even transfer files etc. using Remote Desktop Protocol and a Microsoft account. There are ways around it but it's a real faff, and I don't remember what the solution is after I got my new 13700K, so I have ended up creating a local account and using that to log into that instead.
I don't actually need another server. So I guess I might learn something else new/fun? Not that I really have time. I mean, I have a Raspberry Pi 3, a Raspberry Pi 4 400 (both bought during COVID), and an i5-4570S (old HTPC but in ITX case) sitting around doing nothing. So it's not like I am actually short of computers or stuff to experiment on and/or use as "servers", even if some of them are a bit slow.
The question is whether there is any advantage of my trying out something else on the 6700K, such as Unraid (need to pay)? Ubuntu? Proxmox? FreeNAS?
At present the only thing I can think of is that there are issues logging into a Win10 "server" to administer it or even transfer files etc. using Remote Desktop Protocol and a Microsoft account. There are ways around it but it's a real faff, and I don't remember what the solution is after I got my new 13700K, so I have ended up creating a local account and using that to log into that instead.
I don't actually need another server. So I guess I might learn something else new/fun? Not that I really have time. I mean, I have a Raspberry Pi 3, a Raspberry Pi 4 400 (both bought during COVID), and an i5-4570S (old HTPC but in ITX case) sitting around doing nothing. So it's not like I am actually short of computers or stuff to experiment on and/or use as "servers", even if some of them are a bit slow.