For reasons beyond my control I am going to likely have to shut down and shelve my current Unraid server for at least a year or two. The short answer is due to an intercontinental move. Instead of rebuilding from scratch or trying to transport my Unraid server in pieces. (Let's save some money + time + hassle).

 

I am wondering if it is possible to run Unraid on a Raspberry Pi 5B 16GB? or Rock5 B+ 16GB?

 

My main concern is really just can I run Unraid on it with a reasonable amount of performance?

 

Currently I am using this with Unraid:

Model:	Custom
M/B:	ASRock X570M Pro4 s/n M80-D9026600142
CPU:	AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core @ 3500 MHz
HVM:	Enabled
IOMMU:	Disabled
Cache:	L1 - Cache: 384 KiB, L2 - Cache: 3 MiB, L3 - Cache: 32 MiB
Memory:	32 GiB DDR4 Multi-bit ECC (max. installable capacity 128 GiB)
Network:	bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500
Kernel:	Linux 6.1.118-Unraid x86_64
OpenSSL:	1.1.1zb
Uptime:	41 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes

 

I am not expecting the same performance at all out of either SoC.

My main concern would be compatibility with Unraid and being able to run a few minimum services (qbt, searxng, duplicati, hopefully plex etc) and connect either SoC to a 4TB SSD.

For example does the Unraid license support being tied to an SDCard yet? Or is this only via USB UUID device again? Can I get around this with eg. a MicroSD/USB adapter? Or can I link the license to a bootable SSD?

 

I realise that Unraid is meant to be run with multiple drives etc. in an array and that's kind of the whole point. However, in this case I would be running it with a single drive, making most of the use out of the Docker library and using Unraid still because well... it is the most familiar thing for me. I suppose I could swap to Ubuntu Server even or some other flavour of Linux or even FreeBSD or whatever. But I would rather just stick to how easy Unraid is to use, especially if I need a new service in Docker on-the-fly.

 

Finally. How is the Linux Kernel support?

I assume that the Raspberry Pi's Broadcom BCM2712 4-core CPU will fare more compatible than the Rockchip RK3588 8-core CPU.

 

Is anyone running Unraid on either device? What else should I know?

Thanks

 

P.S. It is important to mention that I really am not using my current Unraid setup for much at all. Except mostly samba share hosting of all my files, Plex and running my own search engine. Aside from that, it's completely overkill for my current use-case and free time. So I really just want something that does a similar job and I don't need some crazy hardware requirements.

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by plantsandbinary

6 minutes ago, plantsandbinary said:

I am wondering if it is possible to run Unraid on a Raspberry Pi 5B 16GB? or Rock5 B+ 16GB?

 

No.  Unraid only runs on x64 processors.  Those two arm ARM based.

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by ConnerVT

Ok thanks! That's a clear answer. I'll have to think of something else then.

 

Might end up going down the Intel N100 Route then.

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by plantsandbinary