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Currently I ended up using mergerfs + snapraid in a Proxmox-based system. Seems like this supports most of my (current) needs. The only difference I currently see between what I'm doing today and potential unraid setup is real-time parity, which I don't care as much about as to justify the price of unlimited license of the latter. In fact, looking at this comparison table (don't know how up-to-date it is though), snapraid even seems superior in several other aspects.

Hi @madmin, Thanks for sharing your build. I've just recently started building a NAS based on the same mobo and for now just trying to figure out the BIOS. Have you spent some time tweaking the settings yet to optimize it for power-efficiency? The BIOS seems to have too many options and is quite daunting when I start looking at it My startup times with HDDs plugged-in also seem a bit long (it takes about a minute to get into BIOS from the time I see the spash-screen and press <Del> until BIOS actually loads up). I've checked this w/o HDDs and it is way snappier. My HDDs report good health when plugged in though, so I'm not sure if I maybe need to tweak some stuff in BIOS (e.g. disable spin-up or smth at boot?)

OMG, I just discovered that the pricing has changed... How did I not see this announcement a few months ago while I was still evaluating my options is beyond me, and now the price of joining the unraid club makes me rethink my options altogether and I'm back to square one; only now the dilemma is - pay a ton of money for the license or go with the free stuff that's out there but which doesn't 100% meet my needs. Stumbling upon this has made ruined my day

One of the reasons for me to go with unraid (as opposed to truenas or doing zfs in freebsd or whatever) was that it offered features that are more friendly towards consumers, as opposed to enterprises, and that is of course achieved through the filesystem you chose. So I hope it keeps being exactly that - consumer focused OS first But if they want to support ZFS for those who want to use it - why not, so long as it doesn't displace or take away the focus from other filesystem options.

Yep, I saw that one His channel was one of the things that actually convinced me to go with unraid - plethora of info Now I just need to go through his beginner playlist heh.

Hello everyone. New member reporting in I'm in the process of building my first NAS and after some considerations decided to go with unraid. I plan to mostly use it for storage, maybe running a few multimedia-related services/containers on it to have the service closer to the data, but for most of the other services I have a separate cluster of Mini PCs in mind, probably running proxmox or kubernetes, for which I have the hardware already, but not the time to set it up Still learning about unraid and how to set things up. If there are any good guides you could recommend me to follow - that would be appreciated. I've just assembled the box a week ago and it's based on Fractal Design Node 804 case with a Topton/CWWK J6413 motherboard inside and 6x18 TB Seagate drives. I also have 2x512 GB WD Red SSDs. Not sure if I should use both or one SSD is enough (for cache etc?) Anyways, just wanted to say hi. Cheers

Hi @jit-010101, Could you provide some guidelines on how to modify stock bios for a different board from the same manufacturer? I have a one of the boards, and with a different CPU (J6413), and would like to mod the BIOS, but don't have much experience with this. Thank you!