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Note, once keys are purchased. You may access them within Unraid OS running on your server (Go to the Tools > Registration page).
About Unraid OS Pro:
- Unraid OS allows sophisticated media aficionados, gamers, and other intensive data-users to have ultimate control over their data, media, applications, and desktops, using just about any combination of hardware.
- Break the confines of a single OS. Unraid lets you partition system resources to store and protect data, run any application, and/or create virtual machines in isolated environments.
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They've added many features and utilities over the years and is rock solid.
It supports Dockers, VMs and community developed apps. And it runs off nothing but a simple USB stick.
My UnRaid is running as a VM inside of ESXi, and has been flawless.
Anyone have questions, I can help answer.
IMO, the major benefits of unRAID are:
1.) Being able to use different sizes disks and still have redundancy.
2.) Having a cache drive for fast storage that requires a lot of reads and writes (Plex, VMs, container storage, etc)
3.) Good webgui that makes managing containers quite simple.
The biggest downside by far is performance. Write speeds on the array itself aren't great - I get maybe 100MB/sec if I'm lucky.
For those that don't know, Unraid is a great alternative to a Synology or Qnap NAS where you build the server yourself out of old or new PC parts depending on what you want to do with it.
See simple comparisons of Synology / Unraid / TrueNAS here - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=unraid+vs+s.
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For those that don't know, Unraid is a great alternative to a Synology or Qnap NAS where you build the server yourself out of old or new PC parts depending on what you want to do with it.
See simple comparisons of Synology / Unraid / TrueNAS here - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=unraid+vs+s.
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They've added many features and utilities over the years and is rock solid.
It supports Dockers, VMs and community developed apps. And it runs off nothing but a simple USB stick.
My UnRaid is running as a VM inside of ESXi, and has been flawless.
Anyone have questions, I can help answer.
They've added many features and utilities over the years and is rock solid.
It supports Dockers, VMs and community developed apps. And it runs off nothing but a simple USB stick.
My UnRaid is running as a VM inside of ESXi, and has been flawless.
Anyone have questions, I can help answer.
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IMO, the major benefits of unRAID are:
1.) Being able to use different sizes disks and still have redundancy.
2.) Having a cache drive for fast storage that requires a lot of reads and writes (Plex, VMs, container storage, etc)
3.) Good webgui that makes managing containers quite simple.
The biggest downside by far is performance. Write speeds on the array itself aren't great - I get maybe 100MB/sec if I'm lucky.
1. I can lose 2+ hard drives without losing the ENTIRE array, you just lose what is on those 2+ drives.
2. I have a dual parity protected 300tb array with 24 drives of various sizes from 14tbs to 6 tbs. When I started I had about 50tbs of various sizes. The expandability is unmatched, you can increase the size of your array without need to buy 4-6 hard drives of the same size, that saved me a ton of money and allowed be to upgrade with prices were good, and slowly instead of all at once.
I just purchased 4 14tb drives and replaced 2 12tb parity drives and 2 6tb drives that I had in my array, My array was down for the time it took me to remove the drives and replace them.
For those that don't know, Unraid is a great alternative to a Synology or Qnap NAS where you build the server yourself out of old or new PC parts depending on what you want to do with it.
See simple comparisons of Synology / Unraid / TrueNAS here - https://lmgtfy.app/?q=unraid+vs+s.
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Not sure the best way to start a server build with a very large array.
Based on what I gather UnRaid system requirements seem to be more forgiving than TrueNas.
UnRaid community seems to be very big, same with TrueNas. Not sure about Open Media Vault as I haven't checked but I will imagine it has a considerable community too given that it is popular on the Raspberry Pi community.
UnRaid and TrueNas seem to be easier to deploy dockers, VMs, and other apps like plex. Open Media Vault seem to support linux containers natively and can do Docker if you add it, it is a little bit more of leg work to deploy things like plex from within it or a container.
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They've added many features and utilities over the years and is rock solid.
It supports Dockers, VMs and community developed apps. And it runs off nothing but a simple USB stick.
My UnRaid is running as a VM inside of ESXi, and has been flawless.
Anyone have questions, I can help answer.