June 2, 20179 yr Not really a pre-sales question as such, more a comment towards potential customers and Limetech. I just bit the bullet and bought the full pro license of unraid. Just so folks know, it was LTT that put it on my radar, but it was SpaceInvaderOnes youtube videos that sealed the deal. His guides are great, and certainly made the difference between me dipping my toes in the water, and my straight up committing 32TB of my storage to your product. I love Unraid so far, but in terms of getting new users up to speed with information that matters, and is well delivered, he does a stellar job. And i'd wager i am not the only person that would say the same. I consider myself an expert at hardware, and using software generally, and his videos were still massively helpful. Anyone who is doing a trial with unraid, i'd absolutely recommend looking him up on youtube. So for any folks that work at Limetech, this is just a new user flagging his contribution to your product. And no, I dont know or associate with him Cheers Oxxy
June 2, 20179 yr Oxxy - I agree that SpaceInvaderOne (@gridrunner in the forums), has done some outstanding work on his video series! I am sure that Tom and Jon (@limetech @jonp) would be interested in your feedback. Welcome aboard! -bjp999
June 2, 20179 yr Author Thanks folks Must say, its the best software i have bought in a good long while. Shall i send Limetech the invoice for all the hardware that 'you made me buy' since migrating? I'd be keen to see what its like on bare metal, but i jumped straight into a virtualized unraid install, and even that 'just works'. Or maybe i'll need another damn license to run up a second instance I have been lurking here a while, its a good community, really quite helpful. Another contributing factor to my jumping aboard. Edited June 2, 20179 yr by Oxxy
June 2, 20179 yr Thanks, Guys. I am glad you find my videos useful I enjoy making them. @Oxxy I know what you mean with buying more hardware. I started out with a gen8 microserver just wanting a nas and wanting it to be nice and small. Now about 4 or 5 builds later I have 2 servers, one a full atx board and case, a 14 core Xeon and a couple of GPUs. If my girlfriend knew the real cost of how much it all cost I would probably be dead!
June 3, 20179 yr Thanks @gridrunner I stumbled across your videos as well trying to fix my synolgy nas. Needless to say after watching your informative videos I saw unraid did everything my server and nas did so just finished rolling out my unraid server of 15 drives. Always used your videos for reference throughout the build. Do keep up the good work. About to purchase my license.
June 3, 20179 yr Author @gridrunner - yeah, this whole homelab thing is going a bit nuts. Dual hex core Xeons 96GB RAM on the machine that has my virtualized unraid, an R710 2 x 4 core Xeons part of the ESXi cluster - might put barebones unraid on this. And now have a second 4U chassis to build in as I just upgraded to Norco 4224, which is now full....it never ends lol And like you, i started with a HP Microserver (trusty old N40L) - tiny little thing that now sits in the corner looking for a new use. I never knew how exactly i wanted to arrange all my storage needs, but with the features, and flexibility of unraid, there is nothing quite like it. And i dont even run any of the VM features. Unraid really is very flexible. I have a range of drive capacities, and interface types (SAS/SATA) and unraid runs quite happily. Good times. I love this stuff
June 3, 20179 yr On 2017-6-2 at 10:44 AM, gridrunner said: If my girlfriend knew the real cost of how much it all cost I would probably be dead! Nah, just single. If you want to curtail your hobby, marry her, it's never the same again......
June 4, 20179 yr 10 hours ago, CHBMB said: Nah, just single. If you want to curtail your hobby, marry her, it's never the same again...... Lol. I heard that was dangerous. A friend of mine did that once and no one ever saw him again
June 4, 20179 yr Oh yeah I hear ya all I got a hp proliant ml310e gen8 v2, build into an Inter-Tech 4U 4424 (24 bay hotswap) with 22TB sotrage so far (9 disks) and a pro licens AND I got a beast I do not dare to turn on because I fear the bill from the power. A Dell R815 Quad CPU (AMD Opteron 6380 2.5 GHz 16 core) with 512GB ram, (diskless so far) The power bill alone for that beast is just about as much as my entire house.
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