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0 pointsadam_th11mo ago0 comments

Unraid is brilliant if you're interested in BYO hardware. It can be setup with mix and match drives, supports docker and virtual machines. Realistically it's a bit more work than Synology to get up and running, but once it is, the only thing you really need to do is update the software from time to time

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j4511mo ago

I don't mind the idea of BYO hardware, especially if it's an old server with hotswap drive and hotswap power built in.

Increasingly, with the time I have towards the things that interest me, I just want storage and a bit of compute to be like a home appliance, reasonably set and forget it and leave my messing around on a USFF computer.

Hamuko11mo ago

I've heard things about Unraid not being that performant due to the design of the disk array solution.

bayindirh11mo ago

You can add a cache SSD to keep hot data to reduce access times, and why do you need that much of a throughput to begin with?

Zekio11mo ago

you can run ZFS without the Unraid disk array in unraid these days

Hamuko11mo ago

Doesn't that get rid of one of the biggest benefit of Unraid where you can mix and match drives, just like in a Synology hybrid RAID?

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j4511mo ago

I don't mind the idea of BYO hardware, especially if it's an old server with hotswap drive and hotswap power built in.

Hamuko11mo ago

I've heard things about Unraid not being that performant due to the design of the disk array solution.

bayindirh11mo ago

You can add a cache SSD to keep hot data to reduce access times, and why do you need that much of a throughput to begin with?

Zekio11mo ago

you can run ZFS without the Unraid disk array in unraid these days

Hamuko11mo ago

Doesn't that get rid of one of the biggest benefit of Unraid where you can mix and match drives, just like in a Synology hybrid RAID?

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