Hi, i am researching unraid and i stumbled on lots of dead links when researching, especially considering the licensing and what to do when you have a Dead USB drive.
these links listed here all all dead: https://wiki.unraid.net/Best_of_the_Forums#Hail_to_the_Chief_.28Posts_from_Tom.29
this is empty too: https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Changing_The_Flash_Device
I have prior experience with Appliances that use a read only USB sticks and i know that they are more likely to fail than SSDs, even when read only. USB sticks are simply not made for great data retention, but to transport data from Computer A to B. Newer TLC flash has just a few month of Data retention, especially at elevated temperatures and unlike in SSDs, USB drives mostly don't do a cell refresh after a few months while powered on. So i would really like to have an image of the stick always laying around in case my NAS would not boot anymore to recreate it.
I am new to unraid and am stuck in deciding between this or truenas core. I have prior experience with ZFS, but i really prefer the low power capabilities with spindown etc. when running unraid. But this is really what it comes down to:
- How secure is the future of unraid compared to an Open Source Product like truenas which will always be developed and supported further?
- How safe is my license? What if i can't reach anyone at Truenas, what if they stop operating? And how long does it take to get support to create a new flash drive with the old license assuming the support is reachable?
- How is the recovery procedure if anything dies? Can i replace the hardware and it will come up again? How good is the degraded performance? How long does say a 8TB RAID resync take? Can i connect any of the harddisks to a Linux PC and just get direct access to my Data or is there anything proprietary?
best regards, David