Well lately I've started to feel a bit icky given the situation of having to wait for synology keychains; Always having a version older than the curve etc,  not to mention instability has me looking into other possible long term solutions for my home Nas.

 

So I wanted to ask as a person coming from Synology DSM to Unraid,  what are some key differences and what should I know before considering the move?

 

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After installing "Community Applications", not a whole lot.

The WebUI is different, but it is as easy, and in several cases even easier, than the installtion of apps Synology as to offer.

 

Unraid has the ability to do more advanced things, and the VM/Docker stuff is really great.

 

Storage concerned, btfs is expandable and you can have up to two parity drives. Along with Cache drives, which improve R/W performance really well.

Continuing on that, shares can also be set up to take advantage of a certain drive/the cache drives. (NZB download unpacking never went so smooth, NZBGet helps too tho)

 

I saw what we had to do to get things running on this almost embedded system from Synology, while it was a blast and ease to do on my Unraid server.

 

You will not be disappointing, depending on what you want to do. Running an Gaming NAS like LinusTechTips did will not be fun with an AMD CPU, because of lack of support in that corner. But Intel works great.

 

You'd even be able to hook up external storage (or devices (hotplug) (also see "Libvirt Hotplug USB")) with "Unassigned Devices", UD is an awesome plugin allowing you to utilize USB drives or the such.

Along with Remote SMB/NFS shares, which is cool, if you still want to access files from your other NAS HDD's (Synology for example) via Unraid.

 

UPS support is integrated of course, not to mention APC is market leader in this.

 

The plugins I mentioned are what make Unraid great, along with the apps that are developed (and easily obtainable and install able via "Community Applications") without the need to set up almost anything actually yourself.