Ballistic Wrote:UnRAID is a nice product, however often not a good solution in most cases as the ability to run other applications next to it is almost none existent. Not to forget it's not really RAID (The R stands for Redundant which UnRAID is not) and its also rather expensive compaired to the alternatives.
The thing that gets me is is that argument having to be addressed many times on the XBMC forum lol
i am not saying I totally disagree but we are having this discussion in the forums of a product that really the same thing can be said about it lol
I absolutely love XBMC and don't see using anything else but the same goes for here...most of the things you can think of using have already been created or if something is asked for enough then someone usually puts in the time to make it work....no different than here
don't get me wrong...there are plenty of things that can outright be said that it just doesn't do.....if you need parity protection for more than one drive then at the present time unraid is not for you etc
but not being able to install most things and expensive are not one of them..
i couldn't tell you the last time i purchased software so believe me it was a hard pill to swallow to have to pony up for a paid version...but considering i dont have to add pools of hard drives....honestly at this point and time i cant believe anybody would even bring up cost now that i think about it lol
if i had to buy a pool of hard drives right now instead of being able to throw my old smaller hard drives in to get me by till hard drive prices come down i would be in trouble lol