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Unraid has their Pro registration keys for 20% off. No hardware required, so if you are planning to build a system later this one works.
Discounts apply to purchases of Pro registration keys, Basic to Pro Upgrades, and Plus to Pro upgrades only.
Good timing with all those 14tb+ hdds arriving.
Promo Starts on November 29, 2021 at 12:01:00 AM PST
https://unraid.net/cybermonday
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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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It really depends on what you're using it for. unRAID is solid when it comes to running containers cleanly.
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.
Yeah I was looking for previous BF deals on it last week and found it never goes on sale. Just wanted to register a key for the first time today and saw this. Honestly I was thinking of getting the plus at $89 which works for 12 drives. But now I can get Pro for $14 more (which in reality may never use) good marketing strategy on their part to only discount the Pro.
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That is correct.
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.