If You Could Sell Me On Unraid With One Feature?

[dlandon]

NAS, 2 Windows Desktoo VMs, and added functionality in Docker Containers (Security Cameras (Zoneminder), Music Player (LMS), Personal Cloud (ownCloud), Home Device Management (Home Assistant)), all in one box.  I've gotten rid of a lot of extra hardware over the years and I'm sure I cut power requirements by doing that.

[TeddyBear]

The awesome community and YT channels (SpaceInvaderOne and Ibracorp)

[Beat-O]

Two months with Synology NAS (DS920+) with 4- 12tb HDD Nas Pro, was doing the job and had it how I wanted but then in no time, I wanted a server with more performance. What got me to Unraid, a more hands-on approach, a media server with higher performance. 2nd was the beauty of adding any size drive to increase the storage space and more HDD capability. I has been a learning curve, as all this is new to me, linux, command lines, scripts and dockers and etc., but I love it. Now I am trying to implement GPUs for transcoding.

[Vetteman]

On 10/31/2021 at 9:20 PM, [email protected] said:

What sold me was the way the raid parity protection worked.  It means: 

1.   There is no raid performance penalty.  (ZFS and software RAID have major disadvantages including complexity)

2.  You can mix and match different size disks.

 

-Clayton

 

I agree 100% with this comment.

 

As well as ease of use and stability sold me on Unraid.