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Unraid makes a lot of the home lab stuff pretty easy. There's a very active community, good docs, frequent updates. It costs a little, but it's one time and w
by bane 1y ago
Unraid makes a lot of the home lab stuff pretty easy. There's a very active community, good docs, frequent updates. It costs a little, but it's one time and worth it, and can grow as you have time and money to add stuff to it.
- udev4096 1y agoYou have to be extremely dumb to even think of using unraid. It introduces a hard dependency on whatever you do and is nothing more than a glorious wrapper for managing docker services
- bane 1y agoWhat dependency is that? Unraid is mostly used for storage management, the docker and vm parts are definitely side bits to the system.
- udev4096 1y agoYes, mostly storage. But why? Storage == ZFS. ZFS cli is well documented and works extremely well. Don't use unraid or truenas or any other fancy UI. I know the appeal from the beginners but it's not worth it
- bane 1y agoYou might be amazed to discover there's a an entire world of storage outside of ZFS.
- MrDrMcCoy 1y agoYou might be amazed to find there's a lot of good reasons the storage world moved away from the RAID4 model Unraid relies on. They're proprietary too, which isn't great if you care about recoverability or never being in a position where they can withdraw your license.
- bane 1y agoUnraid doesn't use raid4. The both of you,stop making things up.
- MrDrMcCoy 1y agohttps://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/overview/nas/ https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/overview/nas/ Having parity on a one or more separate disks is one of the hallmarks of RAID4, and as such the comparison conceptually makes sense even if it's not literally RAID4. The actual state of their data protection is actually worse due to data not being striped across the data drives, reducing I/O, causing balancing issues, limiting large file sizes, and increasing risk of data loss if the wrong drive is killed at the wrong time. Modern software RAID not only solves all these problems, but also automatically heals bit rot and often includes compression support for both space savings and increased throughput. Unraid stalwartly refuses to grant these protections and enhancements to its users in the name of "simplicity", which I as a storage engineer must balk at. Put your data at unnecessary risk if you want. I will shed no tears for you.