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BeeGFS VS Unraid

Compare BeeGFS VS Unraid and see what are their differences

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BeeGFS logo BeeGFS

  Download What is BeeGFS? BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.

Unraid logo Unraid

Simplicity. Flexibility. Scalability. Modularity. Unraid empowers you to build the system you’ve always wanted using your preferred hardware, software, and operating systems.
  • BeeGFS Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-02-05
  • Unraid Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26

BeeGFS videos

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BeeGFS High Availability Features with Built in Monitoring - Oriol Mula Valls, HPCNow!

More videos:

  • Review - Transtec: Delivering BeeGFS for High Performance Computing
  • Review - Hussein N. Harake (CSCS) - Evaluation of BeeGFS parallel filesystem

Unraid videos

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8 months on unRAID

More videos:

  • Review - unRaid - One Year Later - My Thoughts
  • Review - Freenas vs Unraid vs Openmediavault : Best Nas Software 2019

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to BeeGFS and Unraid)

BeeGFS

Unraid

Cloud Storage
33 33%
Cloud Storage
67% 67
Cloud Computing
27 27%
Cloud Computing
73% 73
Storage
38 38%
Storage
62% 62
File Sharing
100 100%
File Sharing
0% 0

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare BeeGFS and Unraid

BeeGFS Reviews

Ceph Storage Platform Alternatives in 2022
BeeGFS is a hardware-independent POSIX parallel file system (a.k.a Software-defined Parallel Storage) developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for ease of use, simple installation, and management. BeeGFS is created on an Available Source development model (source code is publicly available), offering a self-supported Community Edition and a fully supported...
Source: www.teimouri.net

Unraid Reviews

9 Of The Best FreeNAS Alternatives For Your Storage Needs
You can use the free 30-day trial version to see if Unraid is suitable for your hardware. You will experience full functionality in the trial version without any storage device limit. However, you will require an internet connection for the trial versions.
Source: technicalustad.com
Top 7 FreeNas Alternative For Your PC
unRaid is software made to transform any computer into a NAS server. An easy to use processor clocked at 1GHz with 512MB RAM does all the tricks. In simple terms, the motherboard must provide the possibility to boot on a USB key. It doesn’t need installing disks of the same capacity. Hence, you can try the free sector repair solution if your disk isn’t working.
Source: www.sysprobs.com
Top 15 Best TrueNAS Alternatives In 2022
Network-attached storage systems, UnRAID application servers, and UnRAID virtualization hosts make up the bulk of UnRAID’s offerings.
Source: www.dashtech.org

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Unraid seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 13 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

BeeGFS mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of BeeGFS yet. Tracking of BeeGFS recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Unraid mentions (13)

  • what are your digital decluttering routines?
    Really: I've got a Synology 10-disk unit in JBOD mode (each drive independent, but see SnapRaid) containing backup of backups and recent set of 4x 14TB unopened drives. I'm working at building a new UnRaid system to contain everything; I just need to confirm the power supply max load and if I can stagger the drives to avoid the maximum inrush. RAID5 is great (but Is Not A Backup), UnRaid is a "daily" RAID5... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Build upgrade - OS advice
    As an example, I have qemu+kvm host running my VMs (NAS, plex, Nextcloud etc.). As for NAS OS, TrueNAS is a great options. With different drive size you can consider UnRAID. It allows to pool drives of a different size. https://unraid.net/product. Source: over 1 year ago
  • my first NAS. need some input on what to buy. synology?
    You can turn a PC case into a NAS with NAS OS like openmediavault (https://www.openmediavault.org/), unraid (https://unraid.net/product), or TrueNAS Core (https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/corehardwareguide/). They require +8 GB RAM (Unraid system requirements say 4 and OMV is ok with +1GB RAM). To start, I'd go with openmediavault. If you need it to be windows, say, using for anything else, you can... Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Low cost storage server - is there a need?
    Take a look at using unraid as a backup server. https://unraid.net/product. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Homelab iSCSI Resizable Storage
    In case you are interested in software options. UnRAID is a nice option. Https://unraid.net/product. Source: almost 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing BeeGFS and Unraid, you can also consider the following products

Ceph - Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance...

TrueNAS Core - TrueNAS Core (formerly FreeNAS) is a storage operating system strong and robust enough to meet the needs of enterprise level businesses.

GlusterFS - GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system.

OpenMediaVault - OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux.

Minio - Minio is an open-source minimal cloud storage server.

XigmaNAS - File Sharing, OS & Utilities, and Security & Privacy

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