ssmokeyy Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 So I have a high end x99 pc that I built for my gaming pc some years back and now moving to ryzen 3900x and have a need for home server/ data storage. Will unraid work ok for 24/7 without ecc memory? I have been testing freenass but I'm told using freenas is a bad idea because it will crash with the parts I have. Is unraid any harder to setup and use than freenas? Parts list asus x99 deluxe 2 motherboard intel i7-6850k 16gb's ddr4 2800 corsair dom platinum 256gb nvme adata s8000 pro Samsung 250gb 850 pro ssd pny 500gb ssd pro intel gigabit nic xfx rx580 4 3tb wd red drives Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 I have no experience with freenas but I don't see why those parts won't work with unRAID. You do understand that unRAID boots and runs from a USB flash drive? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, ashman70 said: You do understand that unRAID boots and runs from a USB flash drive? Unraid does NOT run from flash drive. It unpacks the archives fresh from flash at each boot into RAM and it runs completely in RAM. Think of the flash archives as firmware. Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Yes of course that is what I meant to say, that it actually runs from memory, thanks for correcting that. Quote Link to comment
ssmokeyy Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 Yes I understand that it starts off of a flash drive. I'm asking if it will be ok to run it on non ecc memory? Also if I shut down the server will it loose any info? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 5 minutes ago, ssmokeyy said: I'm asking if it will be ok to run it on non ecc memory? I'm running 24/7 with non ecc. 6 minutes ago, ssmokeyy said: if I shut down the server will it loose any info? Don't understand this question. The whole point of a NAS is to save data. What sort of info are you thinking might be lost if you shutdown? Quote Link to comment
ssmokeyy Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 Thank u for the info. Just wondering if it has a shutdown sequence in the software. Quote Link to comment
wreck Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Doing a proper shut down sequence from the GUI will close things down the way they need to be. You can do that and power the server back on weeks (or longer) later and have no issues. Quote Link to comment
ssmokeyy Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 what forum post do u guys think is best to read on first setup and learning how to use the software? I have used freenas some but still not that great at it. Also does anyone know where I can learn more about what dockers, shares, groups mean in FreeBSD/ unraid? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 8 hours ago, ssmokeyy said: Also does anyone know where I can learn more about what dockers, shares, groups mean There isn't really the concept of "groups", if by that you mean user groups. There is the ability to control access to network shares for each user separately. Have you read the Product pages, linked at the top of every forum page? There is also this wiki Overview: https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Overview Quote Link to comment
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