u/Diggs_NC

Should I get a standard 7 or wait till I move and try and get the 7 Pro? I am moving to Panama in April 2008. I am housing a server at a friend's home in the US before the move and will be getting a remote KVM and Travel router to manage the server from Panama. KVM will be connected to the server in the US and of course the travel router will travel with me.

Since the Pro is not available in the USA currently, I was wondering if I should just get the non pro. I am assuming like most things the price in Panama for these will be higher than in the US, but since I can't get a Pro in the US, I am curious if it is worth it?

I have never used a travel router, or remote KVM before. Watched a vid on the KVM and it made me realize a travel router would make it easier in Panama since I am going to be moving around a lot for the first year trying to determine where in the country I want to settle into permanently. And I may not have access to the ISPs router in some or all those locations. The travel router helps me overcome limitations for remote access and hopefully just makes setup easier in each location.

Thoughts on this? I know I should do a bit more research to see what fits my needs but would like to know from those of you that may have compared them if there is really anything the Pro offers that makes it worth the upgrade beyond the display. And I would like some time to get familiar with it prior to the move. But if there are features that are really beneficial for the Pro, I wouldn't mind waiting till after the move.

Thanks.

I am retiring and moving to Panama. I am repurposing my current PC mostly to a new Unraid server. i5 10400 and 32GB of RAM. I already have 2 licenses, and my other server will be hosted by a friend in the states. And will allow me to finally have full redundancy with an offsite storage, local storage and another copy on an external drive.

The move will change my lifestyle for a year maybe more to be quite nomadic. So, moving around frequently requires a smaller footprint and not a rackmount case like I currently have for the 2nd server.

I am definitely building a new server for the 2nd Unraid license to have locally to store photos and run Plex + Arr stack.

My question for those of you that have used a Windows VM as your daily driver. Does it work well and do you suggest it? I will be connected directly to the Unraid box, not a thin client. Read through previous posts and the results are mixed. And for anyone using Mac OS, do you find it a Windows VM usable enough to not bother with considering it on the small Unraid server?

I realize the performance of the M4 is better, but I am limited to 16GB of RAM. I do NOT game. I really don't use Windows that much, just for file management and at times when the Mac isn't the best tool. And I have 32GB of RAM on the Unraid server, but not as powerful a CPU. Which I assume is not a big deal since I am not really putting a load on the Windows VM on either platform.

If you were in my shoes, which way would you go? Use the Mac and a Windows VM or the Unraid VM? Cost wise using Unraid is more expensive since I have to add a USB controller and a dedicated GPU.

Thanks for any input.