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I tried Unraid for the FIRST time in 2024
I tried Unraid for the FIRST time in 2024
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“Techno Tim”
I knew nothing about Unraid until today. I finally installed Unraid in my HomeLab on one of my servers. Is it any good? Does it live up to the hype? Let’s find out in my candid walkthrough of Unraid as you see and hear my successes as well as my struggles.
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Oh dear, you listened to Linus?
I'm going to have to not subscribe.
to be fair, this isn't a hypervisor so asking it to monitor like a hypervisor is slightly out of whack.
Tim, a fascinating video to see you going through the growing pains that I experienced a few months ago when I built my first UNRAID server. I have a few Proxmox servers dedicated to running VMs and will stick with those. UNRAID is an excellent NAS OS, with nice Docker capabilities. Proxmox for VMs, UNRAID for NAS and apps.
i live in canada unraid after tax and exchange is like 400$ i used the trial for 2 weeks and it was ok… i learned to use proxmox for everything i need with lxc helper scripts in an afternoon and im WAY happier… if proxmox cost 400, same as unraid id pick and pay for proxmox. proxmox with cockpit from 45drives running in a container is easy. lxc containers use a small amount of recourses and dont lock resources like vms do. i tried truenas scale and it was ok apps where a bit clunky. just my 2 cents but i freaking love proxmox.
might i recommend a few plugins
1. compose.manager – docker compose and container management
2. Docker Folder – grouping containers in gui together by compose app or whowever you choose
3. Disk location – gui representation of physical disk location in chassis to find disks easier
Proxmox is the only way. For Me <3
What I thought you always had unraid haha. I had freenas previously but won't go back. I may install proxmox on a older pc to try that out though.
Best tip. Got all the info on paper, like UID a nd other info related to the USB, as it had a tendency to die a lot
Good video!
Have you tried running Unraid inside Proxmox? I’m running this a couple of years now and is really is the best of both worlds combined.
@15:00 CA is community application, probably the apps you are downloading 🙂 before the latest big Unraid update, the CA had to be added separately. maybe due to some rights/copyrights issues
Great take on Unraid! I really appreciate that you recognized the target user/use case for it and didn't bash on it because it didn't have all the "enterprise" features. A great follow up video would be testing out the ZFS implementation. I love the snapshot/replication ZFS adds.
I stopped using Unraid after a year of using it, with all kinds of issues (mostly the server just randomly hanging every two weeks or so), which, according to the Unraid forum, were caused by hardware issues. Searching the forum for the symptoms I found that they were actually caused by a long-standing issue that Unraid has been unable to solve for years now (search "shfs lost mnt user" on the forum). I replaced Unraid with plain Ubuntu on the exact same hardware, and can now enjoy uptimes of many months, something which Unraid was never able to do for me. I guess it wasn't the hardware 🤷🏼♂
Unraid got me into home server stuff. I like it and it kept me motivated even after the 1 month
add extra parameters –gpus=all –runtime=nvidia and then add device /dev/dri
As someone with 4 unraid servers in my home, as well as running a few for other people, I will say that its a great NAS with the perks of containers. I RARELY use VMs on unraid, simply because I dont need them. One that I manage for someone else does have a VM running windows server, but thats only running a single app on it, but its getting phased out at some point.
That being said, it would be cool if they added in a bit more advanced things for VMs, like snapshotting, or some other way to do backups without needing to come up with your own solution. Overall Unraid is a great system, its pretty easy to use, and the community is amazing. The unraid forms have saved my bacon on several occasions. If not for the wonderful community behind it, I dont think unraid would be nearly as popular as it is. Oh, and nice shoutout to Spaceinvader and Ibracorp. They are absolute legends and I've learned a ton from them both over the years.
Id love to give proxmox a try, but I just dont really have a good use case for it. Unraid can do everything I need. But if that ever changes I'll definitely give it a go. As others have said, unraid isnt trying to compete with proxmox, but rather with truenas and openmediavault.
One of my favorite uses for unraid is my "network server" this server does 2 things, NPM (nginx proxy manager) for allowing me to access multiple webservers on my other unraid boxes (such as multiple nextcloud instances, plex/overseer, and some others) and the second thing is a container for Unifi. The coolest part, though, this unifi doesnt just control my APs at home, but I have several remote sites all connecting back to my house with site to site VPNs (all through Pfsense). In total I manage 6 or 6 sites thought one unifi controller. No port forwarding for the controller necessary since all the APs are communicating with it over vpn, which was a huge relief in the log4j situation. I also use cloudflare tunnel and access to be able to log into the unifi controller from anywhere, which is locked behind 2fs using github as my identity provider.
I am a not happy. owner of unraid. half solutions. and then it is not working. not stable. virtual and a nvidia 1660 super. I cant get it stable at all
ViVa la PROXmox!!!
If you build it for dedicated plex server like myself, I can not say yes enough. The community apps with the YT vid walk throughs and the forums are very detailed and honestly easy to configure and setup. I myself am new to Unraid but got the hang of it pretty fast.
I've been using unraid for 5 years now, im happy unraid is getting the attention it deserves. I feel like Unraid is that gateway OS that new people use to dip their toes into to learn. On that note, I plan on switching to proxmox because my homelab is growing and my OS needs has changed and i feel like proxmox has more to offer for learning and Im ready to start diving into the proxmox rabbit hole.
i never liked the 1 array thing, for a NAS OS thats very limiting.