cbr600ds2 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Hi everyone! It's been a long time. I'm glad some of the old faces are still around. Anyways, I'm still a pretty basic unraid user in that I just use it primarily for storage. I also am running v. 5.0.6 (The last V5 iteration). V6 seems intriguing in that it seems to be able to do so much more than 5 or 4. Should I upgrade? Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Yes, you should!!! For various reasons, found here. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Hi everyone! It's been a long time. I'm glad some of the old faces are still around. Anyways, I'm still a pretty basic unraid user in that I just use it primarily for storage. I also am running v. 5.0.6 (The last V5 iteration). V6 seems intriguing in that it seems to be able to do so much more than 5 or 4. Should I upgrade? So long as you can hit the basic minimum requirements (4Gig ram and a 64bit processor), you're better off upgrading for the extra features. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Based on your signature, you're probably using an Athlon II X2 255 => this has a PassMark of 1840, which is plenty of "horsepower" for v6. Low-end CPU's (PassMark below 1000) can struggle a bit with the higher CPU demands of v6, but yours is fine ... so yes, I'd agree it makes sense to upgrade. I've got 4 servers, and have updated 3 of them to v6. I left one on v5 for a few reasons: (a) so I still have a v5 server to look at when somebody on the forum asks questions from v5; (b) it's used purely as a NAS and there's nothing v6 adds that I would use anyway; © it's running on an Atom D525 that only scores 701 on PassMark, which would be pushing it for v6; and (d) it's ULTRA RELIABLE and ROCK SOLID as is, so there's simply no need to change it. I suspect this server will never be upgraded Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Even if you never use dockers or VMs, v6 is a better NAS. Notifications are reason enough to upgrade. Quote Link to comment
cbr600ds2 Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 Thanks everyone. I just went ahead and did it. Now I'm checking out dockers(what have I got myself into). I do wish notifications worked though Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 I do wish notifications worked though They do. What's not working for you? Quote Link to comment
FlabbaMann Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 © it's running on an Atom D525 that only scores 701 on PassMark, which would be pushing it for v6; My unRaid machine powered by an Atom D525 is currently running 6.1.9 and it performs pretty well (for a 6 year old low-end system ). I'm currently thinking whether I should upgrade to 6.2 or not. The only reason I did not upgrade yet is this known issue: Reported performance issues with some low/mid range hardware. No movement on this yet. what do you think? Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 I'm currently thinking whether I should upgrade to 6.2 or not. The only reason I did not upgrade yet is this known issue: Reported performance issues with some low/mid range hardware. No movement on this yet. what do you think? I'd ignore that. I reported performance issues when I upgraded, but then discovered that a change in the 6.2 tunables made my own settings not optimal. Once I corrected my disk tunables, I was back to full performance. If you have played around with those, just set them back to stock and you'll be fine. Quote Link to comment
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