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I haven't used zfs or freenas but have been using unraid for several years.
Unraid was already a very mature and flexible server os, but in the last year alone they added a ton of new functionality like kvm, docker and cache pool. Next version will add dual parity (currently in closed beta).
Also within the last couple of years unraid/limetech as a company grew and added some top notch people who spearheaded some of the new developments.
I would highly recommend it
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While I personally like unRaid and have 3 Pro Servers running at my Dads place, at home I switched to Snapraid and a Windows Server (runs on Linux too).
It's similar to unRaid, except that it is not a complete OS, just a normal Application and instead of Real-Time protection it uses Snapshots. This has both Pros and Cons but for me the Pros far outweight any Cons. The biggest gripe I had with unRaid was that it uses ReiserFS.
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Me neither. That's good to hear. I tested unRaid Version 5.x, apparently a lot changed with 6.x. I'm still running 5.x at my fathers place without any problems but he just leaves the boxes running 24x7. At home I need suspend S3 and Wake-on-LAN and I had issues with this as well. For some reason that seems more stable under Windows than Linux. I also like the automated Windows Client Backup, thus I have a Server 2012 R2 Essentials at home (well I got the license from the university, otherwise it would have been too expensive I guess). Still I recommend looking at snapraid as well - if for some reason you need a different distribution than slackware (unRaid).
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2018-05-25, 19:59
(This post was last modified: 2018-05-25, 20:06 by ConteZero.)
My solution was a bit different.
The base machine is an old Z170 board with a Pentium G3450; it manages a 12 HDD RAID6 using software raid (controller is a LSI SAS 2008 plus a 16 port SAS expander, €60 on eBay).
The MD raid is then mounted via iSCSI/RDMA (over a 10GBE twinax "crossover") on a (smaller but powerful) linux server that does filesystem management (XFS), shares and the like.
It might seem a bit overkill but it's actually cheap, it's damn expandable and it's great gym to work with linux and networking.
Network cards are an old Mellanox ConnectX-2 (they are pretty cheap, same goes for the twinax cable) and a bit more expensive Marvell (that has two connectors instead of one).
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Does anyone have or know about The WILDFIRE Smart TV Box?
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I'm gonna tell about my experience with Unraid:
Wanted to use it for Jellyfin, Syncthing, Pi-Hole, and so on.
So i'm a noob, but i am willing to read (a lot).
So before i ordered the trial key i read the wiki and saw the spaceinvaderone videos on youtube.
Jellyfin: the only video on how to install jellyfin on unraid was i think an indian guy. It was quick to install and it worked locally.
Then came the part to access the jellyfin remotely. No videos on it on youtube. Googled "how to access jellyfin remotely on unraid" - nothing. Spaceinvaderone had one video on letsencrypt on unraid, so i tried to follow it: well, letsencrypt is now swag. So i installed that and copied the settings from the video over to swag (there's a video explaining how to do it). Didn't work... Tried so many times that i didn't have more tries on letsencrypt certificates LOL
So asked on the swag unraid forum: "i don't have time to explain this...." was the answer. Read... Yeah! Read, but where? On the official jellyfin website nothing... Ok, docker container, docker compose... I am a noob, remember? And i am using unraid, so i expected to use the unraid gui.... Gave up.
Tried syncthing. Exactly the same thing.
So as a noob in order to use unraid i have to:
1- do a linux course
2- an unraid course
3- a docker course
4- a course about each and every app i want to install and use....
Because there are no tutorials cattered towards people with less experience. Hell, some tutorials i find online are like this:
A complex command you are supposed to enter in the terminal, right? But the things you are supposed to replace by your own values are not in bold, or in another colour. All in black, great!
The result: installed ubuntu. Had to read a ton of tutorials (they exist! A ton of them for ubuntu!!!!), had a lot to mess around im the terminal... But everything is working great.
Really disappointes by unraid and it's (lack of) support