Unraid Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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

• Build a NAS, where to start?

  As for NAS OS, TrueNAS is great. There are alternatives, which you can consider as well. UnRAID is very popular. https://unraid.net/product. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Which OS for storage NAS and which for the docker NAS? Advice needed for a beginner

  For storage there are multiple options. Couple examples: UnRAID https://unraid.net/product. Source: about 2 years ago

• Bare minimum for linux

  Limetech on unRAID (read up on VM Management & VM Guest Support). Source: over 2 years ago

• NAS suggestion from the MAC community

  However, it might make sense to deploy a software RAID (zfs, mdadm, etc). Check out UnRaid https://unraid.net/product, OVM https://www.openmediavault.org/, or Starwinds SAN & NAS https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas if you want to virtualize the NAS. Source: over 2 years ago

• Help with fault tolerance on a Plex server

  Probably what you want is UnRaid: https://unraid.net/product. Source: over 2 years ago

• Building a cloud for people on small-to-medium IaaS providers

  So one thing that's really interesting to me is that I didn't know how big unraid was. Every time I'd see it mentioned in various places. Source: over 2 years ago

• Help me choose storage please

  You can build something yourself and use something like TrueNAS (FreeNAS) or Unraid. Check hardware requirements of the products: Https://unraid.net/product. Source: over 2 years ago

• I saw someone using unRAID in one of LTT videos, can someone explain me in a simple terms what unraid is for mid-level IT person? Is it basically VM manager to host multiple virtual machines while sharing the hardware within that server to many different VMs?

  Does this page not tell you enough? https://unraid.net/product because if not, they should change it. Source: about 3 years ago