Hey everyone!

I put together a step-by-step guide for setting up Immich on Unraid with a focus on performance.

It's aimed at new installations and covers the full setup from shares to running containers, plus migrating your Google Photos library via Takeout.

🔗 https://rorar.github.io/immich-unraid-manual/

What's in the guide:

- Storage layout that puts thumbnails and encoded video on your SSD/NVMe cache while keeping originals on the array

- Custom Docker network (no port exposure for internal services, container name resolution)

- Templates for GPU-accelerated transcoding and ML inference (NVIDIA NVENC, Intel QSV, AMD VAAPI)

- Google Takeout export, download via Firefox container directly to Unraid, and import with PhotoMigrator

- Immich admin configuration (image settings, hardware acceleration, transcoding options, mobile app setup)

- FolderView3 for proper container start order

The docs site has a few nice touches:

- Enter your Unraid IP once at the top and every <your-unraid-ip> placeholder updates across all pages, including copy-able code blocks

- Quicklinks that take you straight to the right Unraid UI page (Shares, Terminal, Docker, Apps)

- Fullscreen viewer for the GPU decision diagram

- Dark mode, search, previous/next navigation

The guide is Unraid-native (no Docker Compose) and follows the official Immich container images for faster updates.

Full guide: https://rorar.github.io/immich-unraid-manual/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/rorar/immich-unraid-manual

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I'd love your feedback! This is the first version and I'm sure there are things I missed or could explain better.

If you spot mistakes, have suggestions, or want to add something, feel free to reply here or open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/rorar/immich-unraid-manual/issues.

PRs are welcome too!

PS: Apps will soon be available in the CA Apps, stay tuned 🙂

Edited May 27May 27 by p0p

Thanks for this! very helpful. My only issue with using the templates was i had to make a couple changes timezone etc. and anytime I go into edit the docker it completely reverts it back to the template defaults i tried turning this off but had no luck!