April 25, 201016 yr hello all -- something struck me the other day at the office: has anyone realized that there is an "unraid effect"? said effect has two parts: (1) you usually start small, wanting to re-use left-over computer parts to cobble up an inexpensive nas that provides a measure of protection for your files. but then, "something" happens and you end up building a, say, 20 drive beast with dual nics and so forth. oddly enough, what started as a quick and inexpensive project turned into a long and costly one. (2) a consequence of the transformation of this once "quick-n-dirty" project into something else is that you become a perfectionist about the entrails of your server -- i think the "pimp your rig" thread is a leading contributing factor to this. basically, if you build your own boxen, there is a "before & after unraid". two boxen i built after the first incarnation of my nas are quite tidy inside, with all wiring carefully routed, with great pain taken in keeping it "out of the way". my main box, built before i was made aware of unraid by an co-worker, is a different story. whilst it is not a complete catastrophe, i was quite horrified by it when i opened it recently -- and not just by the amount of dust that had gotten into it. all sorts of cables definitively in the way, far more than my current unraid server which has more wiring inside than my main box. not something i'd be proud to show pictures of. i think some university should study what Tom Mortensen has brought onto this world.
April 25, 201016 yr Addictive. It is possible that a new psychological condition should be recognised: UCD - unRAID compulsive disorder.
April 26, 201016 yr Author Doesnt this mean unRAID is just too flexible? various *nix oses are very flexible too (ignoring the fact that unraid is based on slackware), and i have never went, er, "berserk" building up what started as a small appliance, into a quasi data-centre grade server. i shudder to think what i might have done had i not have to finish house renovations and whatnot. even when i was running a discarded pdp-11 at home as a *nix box, i never "pimped it up". maybe unraid is really addictive, as it was stated previously? cheers.
April 26, 201016 yr I definitely find it addictive. I'm constantly thinking about different ways to tinker with my server, even though half the time I take a perfectly running server and break it. I tinker with my desktop too, but not as often.
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