I'm in the process of getting really really irritated with my computer, I thought it was a good Idea to have my computer run unRAID, and it worked fine till the new hard drive just failed royally, and I can't take it out of the system, because then unRAID won't start up properly. I'm so tired of this, and it's going to cost 2000 € to get the data back MAYBE, so I'm not really super happy about anything atm. So instead of using my 2000+ € computer as a NAS, why not buy a NAS and then put unRAID on it. . . WHICH NAS THOUGH?! Can I just buy any existing NAS that has like 6/8 bays and then let that stand somewhere where it doesn't make much sound... I no longer want to sit in Linux through a VM, but I still want to have dockers and stuff going, but not on my main computer. I'm a bit tired of that, and not being able to use all hardware etc.

Recommendations for commercial NAS devices that unRAID works on wouldn't really hurt, so please throw a bunch of names, nothing too expensive, and hopefully not something that is unknown.

5 hours ago, Querzion said:

the new hard drive just failed royally, and I can't take it out of the system, because then unRAID won't start up properly.

We need a little more info on that. Swapping a failed hard drive shouldn't be too difficult. Check the unraid docs on how to replace a failed harddrive.

5 hours ago, Querzion said:

why not buy a NAS and then put unRAID on it. . .

I can think of many reasons why NOT to do it :) But if you still want to go that route, here and here are some links.

5 hours ago, Querzion said:

but I still want to have dockers and stuff going

How many/what containers do you use? What do you mean with 'stuff going'? A prebuild nas has it's limits performance wise.

On 10/28/2025 at 12:19 PM, Querzion said:

Recommendations for commercial NAS devices that unRAID works on wouldn't really hurt, so please throw a bunch of names, nothing too expensive, and hopefully not something that is unknown.

you could try minisforum and ugreen.