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Has anyone set up unRAID for their home? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by dax@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I tend to go overkill when it comes to home networking and server infrastructure. I'm considering replacing my QNap, with what I assert is the world's worst software, with a homebrew and unRAID.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience doing this or not. For a few years I ran a raid 5 array on an old gaming PC, and then I swapped to qnap for "what if there is a fire, how do I grab and run with a computer that can act as an anchor for a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier". That's worked for the last 5 years, sort of, but I swear they make everything 10x harder than it has any right to be.

I was considering 4 x 10tb hdds and 3x2TB Evo 990 Pros, in a cache pool and/or 2x2TB in an SSD pool for docker containers and 1 2TB for the cache pool. I'm just not entirely sure where unRAID itself ends up going; the cache pool?

Aside from that question, any other "gotchas" that you've experienced? Any comparisons with qnap would be greatly appreciated, too.

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[–] dax@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

TrueNAS is the rebranding of FreeNAS, right?

I'm not the biggest BSD fan - I've struggled with figuring out with my pfsense and then opsense perimeter devices, so I kinda just gave up. TrueNAS Scale could work, but I'm trying to avoid VM in favor of docker-container-all-the-things. How is TrueNAS for running containers? Is it just like a basic linux server install, or does it have some bells and whistles like unRAID does?

[–] coolxenu@toot.io 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

@dax Scale is very nice. Way better docker/cotainer support. the CORE version does not really support that at all. Scale has proper container support.

Scale has a good UI for containers, I think it's very easy management.

[–] dax@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have a couple little boxes around I could install scale on to give it a test drive - with unRAID having a (very modest) price point I'm not against it, but if TrueNAS Scale does what I want, I won't really need to go unraid route. To be honest I'm less entranced with the UI than I am having a sane set of command line tools and a reasonable cli-first configuration route, if that's possible.

[–] coolxenu@toot.io 3 points 2 years ago

@dax TN may not be for you then. The cli and all the tools are available but it is GUI based.

I have not tried unRAID but have read good things about it.

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