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Serving My Home: Why I Chose Unraid!
Serving My Home: Why I Chose Unraid!
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“Adlon”
I love working on computer and my recent hobby I have picked up has been running a homelab. I went from running TrueNAS Scale and now have ended up on Unraid. I figured I’d tell my story just a little bit.
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nice REAL TALK
Its not really clear what your goals are with the solution. With that amount of RAM in your server you might as well run Proxmox. You can run VM disks on the boot SSD with no problems. Also you can passthrough your SATA drives to a NAS VM. Proxmox is "enterprise-isch" and one of the best free foundations for a homelab. Definitely worth learning.
Unraid will grow with you, I started 6 years ago with 16TB. I have completely replaced/upgraded all my hardware 3 times during that period and it just keeps running and have NEVER lost a bit of Data. Now sitting at 130TB. I did loose a USB drive once, but support had me back up and running in less than an hour. Welcome to the Unraid Community, you won't be disappointed.
I've wanted to start a YouTube channeel for years but never got the courage to try it. I commend you on an excellent start and hope you keep up the geat work!
Not to be "that guy", but TrueNas Core is BSD, not Linux. Truenas Scale is linux-based, but it is still an appliance that does not let you do "all the linux things". At any given time, I have 14-16 apps like Jellyfin (plex-like), radarr, sonarr, lidarr, readarr, prowlarr, metube, drawio, qbittorrent, bazarr, audiobookshelf, homarr, etc. running. Being hosted on a raidz2 filesystem means my data flows across the LAN at 350 to 680 megaBYTES per second sustained data rate, and cached data flows at the 10gbe line speed. Scheduled drive scrubbing means that faulty hardware (or software) or bitrot or corruption aren't going to slow me down. No single piece of hardware (or any 2 HDDs) failing, can harm my data during normal daily operation. All the hardware is free, left-over, hand-me-down crap or cheap refurbed industrial HDDs, and uptime is only disturbed by planned OS updates and the following reboot. I'm running TrueNas Scale, so none of this is extraordinary.
Hey, glad you're new in the "homelab" world and have this wiling to learn more. I've started the NAS stuff with FreeNAS which is TrueNAS Core (unix variant) and yes it was a bit hard at first to get it work correctly and configure access and so on. But I'm quite happy with it, it runs great, I think this is the more stable machine in my lab, and the possibility to run iSCSI is a big plus for me.
But I'm betting with time you will experiment more and more, test new stuff and way to do things. Just don't forget to not risk too much with your "production" services especially with the NAS where your data are. Keep a look on used market and maybe get some old stuff to have a secure place to mess things up. So if the idea of testing proxmox and build your NAS inside would come back, keep in mind you could lose everything if you're doing everything on the same machine, I know budget's tight at first, we all started somewhere, but with time you'll see that having a test rig is wise 😀 especially when you want to mess with virtualization. I cannot count the number of time I've broke everything and also switch back and forth between hypervisors before sticking to one.
Keep looking and learning, and enjoy the journey! Peace from EU. (and come in the /r/homelab to get inspiration and motivation !)
Also, be careful, you could end up with a full 42U rack quite quickly 😉
is cloudflare tunnel fast as i used it for some time and it was too slow and then switched to tailscale
I've been using unrain for 3 years and I'll never go back anything else
I've been trying a few different these past months with the last being Unraid, is pretty cool the fact that I can add/remove drives or not necessarily match their capacity for the raid but it has so many cons that i just cant (thought i could change my opinion here). I love playing with VM's so my main OS is proxmox just like u said, using HDD passthrough, and I think for data I'm going with TrueNas scale, i think is the best for features and security (backups, secure enough even against ransomware), even tho most options support VM's and docker is just.. not great.
Tried Xigmanas first, very lightweight but a bit too many options for something so simple, OMV is great! super simple, very intuitive but of course, lack the (security) features I wanted, other than that I'd 100% recommend it, Truenas Core being based on freebsd is a bit annoying sometimes if I want to play with the internal OS
I chose unraid because it really good at power saving, it only spun up parity drive and one necessary drive, other drives will stay hibernate. With unraid I can plug all my redundant HDDs into nas without worrying about electric bill. Other nas with RAID solution especially synology always woke HDDs all at once or may be never hibernate at all
I am glad I started with Unraid, and I think it is worth the money. I think that if I did it over again, I would have bought cheap used HDDs to play around with file systems and configurations. Once you invest in drives and start putting “real” data on them, the stakes are higher. Play around, break things, and then rebuild it better.
We both are sailing in same boat … I have same thoughts and same server needs 😄