November 21, 201213 yr ..and I should have never left. Oh unRAID won't you have me back? Long Story Short: long time unRAID user, switched to FreeNAS, ran fine but a bit quirky for a year or so, disk failed, the steps to replace a disk are a PIA(if things go badly), thank god for backups, hopefully limetech lets me upgrade my key I'm getting far too busy to want to jump into console prompts at 1AM when my array dies and @#$%@$ around with a storage solution. I like K.I.S.S and unRAID will give me that back. /fixed title //did they ever get Nagios working? ///where are screens of the new version?
November 21, 201213 yr Welcome back. With the spamed forum lately I would pick better subject titles until something is done.
November 21, 201213 yr Author Welcome back. With the spamed forum lately I would pick better subject titles until something is done. And fixxored. Why all the spam, this is unheard of.
November 21, 201213 yr They found the forum and a way in. Never seen it this bad before. Only in last couple of days/weeks that I've seen more than a couple at any one time. As to your question - sorry I can't answer that. I use unRAID as a storage server only nothing else on it.
November 21, 201213 yr Author As to your question - sorry I can't answer that. I use unRAID as a storage server only nothing else on it. I used mine as a NAS but having the reporting tools that FreeNAS gives me including SSH/Rsync built in was nice. I saw that they expanded the disk count to 24 which makes my 24 bay array feasable to use. Once I have my backups done I'll be coming back to unRAID and giving it a 2nd shot. Sad that we are still on a Release Candidate. Figured after all this time we'd be at 5.x. Ah well.
November 21, 201213 yr Sad that we are still on a Release Candidate. Figured after all this time we'd be at 5.x. Ah well. A lot of the delay is due to advancing/changing technology. Apple changed AFP, Realtek changes their shipping NIC to motherboard vendors, Slackware Kernel changes that are not playing nice, for example. the list goes on. Each change require new testing and seems to end up breaking something else in the process.. they keep getting really close.... fingers crossed. PS. I'll agree ZFS is nice.. as long as you can back it up... its also much faster. but... it can be a major PIA to add or replace a disk(s)....
November 25, 201213 yr Author PS. I'll agree ZFS is nice.. as long as you can back it up... its also much faster. but... it can be a major PIA to add or replace a disk(s).... This is the sole reason that I want to come back to unRAID. The sheer amount of steps it's taking me to replace a dang disk is giving me a headache. unRAID when it lost a disk, just had a red light appear, complained, I swapped it out, it worked. VOILA! For my backup server ZFS is fine, for my day to day system unRAID is what I need. I can forget about some of the bells and whistles, I need the damn thing to work. PERIOD.
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