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That's why I would like the choise: USB key, password or both. Up to the user what to use. I don't think they can just copy the FreeNas solution I think FreeNas, just like QNAP and Synology, have a RAID storage pool in place and on that storage pool you can create a volume (encrypted or not). Unraid works a bit different, I has a number of seperate disks and calculates the parity with the data on those disks to a parity disk (a bit like SnapRaid and some FlexRaid solutions do). Therefore there is no "single volume" to encrypt. What I think for Unraid a solution could be is encrypting one, multiple or all disks (user could choose), and mount those necrypted disk at boot-time with the encryption password/usb key. Those mountpoints would then be part of the Unraid array (instead of the original partition mount), and after this the array would be started. For the Unraid array itself it would then be completely transparant. But I could be wrong in this :-)

That's the same reason why I haven't switched full to Unraid. I would like to have the data encryption in rest option. When the server is shutdown (or stolen) and then booted op again, you can't access the data without validating that you have the right to access it. This could be via a few options: - Password at boottime in console or via webinterface - Keyfile on USB disk or Yubikey which is only read during start-up of Unraid. This way the USB key can be removed after the system has started and is only needed during reboot/startup. Both ways, password or keyfile would prevent unauthorized users to access your data without the password or key. There are a lot of other options you can use to encrypt you data in rest: Veracrypt container or gpg containers Use a Linux VM in between with: https://www.cryfs.org/ Run encryption software on the client machines that access Unraid for example: https://cryptomator.org/ https://www.boxcryptor.com/en But it would be nice to have it standard within Unraid like other NAS solutions have.

That's a nice looking setup Just wondering, did you measure the power consumption on this? Idle and/or in full use?

I'm looking for a new motherboard to run with Unraid, and I'm wondering if one of the 2 below will work? MSI X99A Raider: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X99A-RAIDER.html#hero-overview Load it with: - 32GB RAM DDR4 - i7-6800k (6 cores) Socket 2011-v3 ASRock Z710 Extreme7+: http://www.asrock.nl/mb/Intel/Z170%20Extreme7+/ - 32GB RAM DDR4 - i7-6700k (4 cores) Socket 1151 / Skylake Compared the 2 on CPU Benchmark: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2565&cmp%5B%5D=2785 Both motherboards have 10 SATA ports, and M.2 slot and support VTx and VTd if I'm correct. Advantages of MSI: - 128Gb RAM possible - Higher benchmark for CPU (2 cores more) could be better for multiple VMs. Advantages of ASRock: - Lower power consumption (and heat) max TDP of 95W for the ASRock CPU and 140W for the MSI CPU. - 3x M.2 slots instead of one, but don't know for sure if i can use 3x M.2 and the 10 Sata ports at the same time. But more M.2 slots for cache could be good, especially with VM's running from it. - Total price 50-60 euro's less than MSI setup I want to use it for: - Storage (of course) - Dockers - Multiple VM's with various OS In other words the complete Unraid package :-) I'm leaning towards the MSI X99, just because of the possibility to expand RAM and have more cores available. But the Asrock "appears" to have a better build quality and motherboard components, but I could be wrong. Are there any users in the forum who use one of these 2 types of board or could advice one of the 2? Thanks for any suggestions.

Curious about news on this topic, I'm currently using a QNAP (TS-563) for this with the builtin AES encryption and seperate key which I only need to load during boot. Would be nice if unRAID would get this option. The QNAP also runs VM's, but I would like to switch-over to unRaid to have more control over my hardware and scalability.