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Checking out Unraid For the First Time!
Checking out Unraid For the First Time!
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checking out unraid and my first impressions about the OS.
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Newbie to unraid as well and loving it. Next question is hardware selection. Small form factor, low power consumption and then some grunt so spin up a workable Windows etc vm. I would consider using this a a platform for my workstation to host everything
Unraid is the best!
What concerns me with Unraid is that it is based on Slackware.
The TrueNAS alternative I like better is OpenMediaVault (OMV) which is based on Debian Stable.
Easiest way to change permissions is with dynamix file manager
Must enable unRAID connect, Swag, urbackup, pihole, AList, Filebrowser, cadvisor, RomM, homepage, customtab, …
As for must-have apps/extensions – the binhex versions of applications are all very good and I tend to stick with those when they are available (binhex-jellyfin, binhex-plex, binhex-krusader, binhex-syncthing, etc) and for plugins, the Dynamix suite are all very good and useful. I also like the Fix Common Problems plugin as well as the Nvidia Driver plugin if you have an Nvidia GPU for transcoding/passing through to a gaming VM.
I love Unraid and have been using it for years with no issues in my homelab. Speaking to what Don said about everything being laid out nicely and easy to understand – I couldn't agree more, and things being so easy (like setting up Docker containers via the web GUI where the required fields are all laid out for you already) have actually made it much harder for me to grasp how setting up apps/containers on TrueNAS works and I usually end up just giving up and sticking with Unraid.
🤑 co, proprietary software with copy protections …
I mean hey with how broken licensing is now its a miracle that its locked to a flashdrive not to one device
(or i missed some detail, please let me know)
EDIT: WAIT IT BOOTS OFF THIS USB STICK 😢
What UNRAID dashboard / colour theme is that? I am using 'black' but yours looks more gray than black.
5 years running unraid and it’s fantastic, rock solid. Fix Common Problems is a great plugin. Anything CA or Dynamix is worth looking at.
CA Fix Common Problems
CA Appdata Backup/Restore
CA Auto Turbo Write Mode
CA Appdata Cleanup
CA Auto Update
CA User Scripts
CA Config Editor
Mover Tuning
Dynamix WireGuard
Preclear Disk
Dynamix Active Streams
Dynamix System Info
Dynamix Date Time
Dynamix System Buttons
Dynamix SSD TRIM
Dynamix S3 Sleep
Dynamix System Statistics
Dynamix System Temperature
Dynamix Cache Dirs
the only thing missing from unraid is the ability to run docker-compose directly from a file, I find more of a hassle when I can't access the "native" features of docker behind the "apps" gui
Would you recommend Unraid over truenas Scale for Plex and *arr apps? I’ve tried scale and their community support via forums and discord isn’t very welcoming.
You shouldn't have to go into permisions to fix anything. Did you set up a user? Once you set up a user and you export the share as you stated the users group's shows up at the bottom and you select which users have permisions.
I looked at Proxmox but decided on Unraid because of the USB. This mechanism allows one to use 100% of the hardware. I have it mounted it in the case so that it doesn’t accidentally get removed. It’s similar to ESXi from a boot perspective, so there’s that. What I don’t like about it is snapshots for VMs but that’s less because of Unraid itself.
welcome to unraid Don! i think it is one of the best ones out there for people who are starting out with wanting a nas and vms and dockers and plugins all in one that is more user friendly to get started in lots of flex ability 🙂 Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👍😎JP
if your using sonarr and all that look up the Trash guides. Plugin i would install is NerdTools, Compose manager and Appdata Backup. I use unraid on an Old Dell XPS and love it. sometimes when I want to install a docker that isn't in their list it gets a bit aggravating but other than that I love unraid. Don't forget about parity drive and a cashe drive. I have a 14TB parity 480g cache and my regular drives are a 10,8 and 4 TB.
This whole business of complaining about installing Unraid to a flash drive is a bit silly. Unraid's OS is stored on a flash drive but runs entirely in RAM, meaning that reads from the flash drive only occur at startup and writes very infrequently and on shutdown. I typically reboot my Unraid server once every few months. It is therefore absolutely NOT that you are using a flash drive as a typical boot volume – for example like people running Raspbian from a flash drive on their Raspberry Pi.
Secondly Unraid is not free after a 30 day trial period, so your flash drive's UUID is linked to your account so that it along with all your settings is backed up to Unraid's cloud back up. If your flash drive dies you just login to your account and download the back up plus your certificates to install to a new flash drive – but that said I've been running Unraid since around 2017 from the same flash drive. That's basically because for all that time the flash drive is doing nothing 99.9% of the time.
So glad to see Unraid getting some love. My lab runs entirely on an unRAID host. VMs and hardware passthrough is so stinking easy!
You're a little late to the party! Enjoy!
Unraid is something I would like to see more of, nice video
thx for the video,
i'm not into NAS thing since proxmox can do everything i need,
the price from unRaid are not expensive because it is only one payment for life
if i have to build a nas, it's gonna be with unRaid, i dont like trueNas, omv, they seem too complicate xd
I used unraid in past and on 1 gigabit lan without cache etc.. Just a pool max out at 60 MBps whereas on truenas and xpenology it is 110 MBPS
Tested via same computer multiple isos files
mmm unraid was my firts choice a lot ot time ago but nowaday with ProxmoxVE ad Truenas i dont't need to spend money 😉 !!!
I looked into unraid when I was standing up my server and decided that just using Debian 12 and setting the things up I wanted (Docker, BTRFS, SMB shares, Plex, VMs, etc) manually in the OS. While unraid makes this stuff easier (for a price) I would recommend this approach for anyone that wanted to learn more about Linux. It's free, you can do all the same things, and if you are trying to learn it can be a lot of fun.
plugins: fix common problems, appdata backup, ca mover tuning, nerd tools, unassigned devices, unassigned devices plus, unassigned devices preclear, unbalance.
UNRAID was my first NAS system I setup in my home lab, and it's still running today and used heavily even though I have TrueNAS and OMV running. UNRAID can also have a parity disk so that you can have a disk fail and still have availability of your data etc. but the parity disk has to be a bigger drive than your other drives. But that's one of the things I like a about it, you can have a 2 TB parity drive, and use another other smaller drive for storage so I have a few 1 TB drives, down to a 128 Gig drive for storage and UNRAID can use all of them.
I've been running Unraid since 2017 after trying out quite a few NAS OS solutions. Unraid has been rock solid. The biggest positive is that its very hardware agnostic. I've swapped out the motherboard and CPU twice and also several minor hardware changes – every single time, it just came up without any problems using the same OS I had on the thumbdrive. Never had to reinstall anything.
was this a paid review?
I have been rocking UnRAID for a few years on my home lab…even have a PLEX server and audiobookshelf server working like a boss (vaultwarden, full arr stack)…there are so many things it can do…I run BTRFS on my array disks all 9 of em so far [with expandability to up to 24 drives in an old Supermicro 846 case I got for cheap) plus two redundant failsafe drives.
it runs well on
ASRock Z270 Killer SLI/ac
Intel Core i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
32GB RAM DDR4
Tons of apps, tons of tweaks, and TONS of support…got a problem…someone somewhere has figured out how it's busted and how to fix it
Keep em coming!!!!
Hello Novaspirit, I just noticed that the Unraid software tells the RAM is LPDDR4 8GB, but the official site of zimablade says that it supports LPDDR3L
can you clarify this ??
Thanks for this.
I can't put an os on USB only. I have seen too many USB drives broken off for leaving them plugged in all the time.
I am glad someone walked this awkward road for us.
Good stuff, very clear, keep the good work sir! <3