Ummm hello?! It’s in the name. “unRaid” I love having JDOB with parity. 
 

im not soo sure what else you can add. The flexibility ver6 gave to the platform and with the community’s additions it’s a dream. I don’t even see unraid as a storage server anymore it’s “My Hypervisor” I guess the best thing you can do with unraid is keep its development and support for the latest hardware going. Please never let this great product die. 

a second thing would be to probably partner spaceinvader one. He has helped soo many of us with tutorials which have  expanded the use of our servers soo much. 

I like the UNRAID array technology - it is effectively combating e-waste and enables power savings by allowing me to re-purpose a 10+ year old motherboard and various mixed harddrives, including 24*8 TB "shingled magnetic recording" harddrives. Harddrives that would otherwise be thown out because they do not work in other popular RAID solutions and energi savings because only one harddrive need to spin up if I need a file.

 

I would like to see UNRAID to support even more harddrives.

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one thing you like most about Unraid:

I love the community and that I will always find a solution/answer for my problem/questions.

 

one thing you'd like to see added to the OS in 2020:

muliple (2+) arrays would be sweet

As a user for over 8 years to list just "one" thing I like about UnRaid is just too hard. 

- I love the community!  I have asked questions and I get meaningful and considerate replies.

- I have had over 1000 days of uptime!

- I love the fact that UnRaid can run lower spec hardware and adding additional drives is super easy.

 

As for something I would like to see in the future is snapshots of my crtitcal data.  I am currently working on a second UnRaid box to back up my critical data along with off site storage.

Anyways, keep up the good work UnRaid!

I love the way UnRaid enabled me to create a real data storage server. The ease of setup and a great GUI.

 

There is still room for improvement. Different name than unassigned for drives which you want to use for vm's. Let the user choose the name or create a VM Disk pool or something like that. Also creating a copy of the usb stick for the is to a second usb drive instead of a download would be awesome :D

Easy to add drives.  Not having to worry about size (other than parity).

 

I'd like to see multiple arrays.

I love the simplicity of the system, of deploying dockers.

 

One thing I’d like to see is a simpler way of modifying the allocation size of a VM within unRAID as opposed to trying to do it within the VM OS.

I love being able to add additional drives, even different sizes, to grow my storage pool. That was my number one reason to go with Unraid. 

 

In 2020, I would love to see more support for running Unraid in a virtual environment. 

I dig the docker aspect especially with community apps I'd like to see some type of  native server to server backup. 

I like the versatility of unraid - the Array, Dockers, VMs and more thanks to the work of LimeTech and the community

 

I would like see the ability to create snapshots of the data in shares and the VM xml all integrated into the unraid os

Cool giveaway!

• Love the UI and it's user friendliness! (especially for linux and/or network untutored folks)
• Would be nice to see a file explorer and, even a file editor integrated inside the UI.

Good luck to all

I love the flexibility unraid allows me for a multitude of configuration options.  I love that if my enterprise gear dies, I can transfer my disks to anything and still have my data.  I love that if parity fails, I only loose the data on the disks that failed and not the entire array.  I have been running unraid for a really long time and I have never lost data.  The support community is fantastic!  I’d like to see support for more than 30 disks someday. I’d also like to see the ability to have archive arrays where the catalog and directory structure could live on the main unraid array, perhaps with stub files on the main array, and if those stub files were called the remote array could wake on lan and transfer over the files, then power back down.  Each archive array could be licensed a little cheaper than a full license and limited to not have direct SMB access perhaps, using APIs to talk to the main array.  

I love how easy to use unraid, unparalleled staff and community support for the product.
 

 

SSD array support would be good.

I love the simplicity of the whole system

 

 I would like to see built in server to server sync

The thing I like the most about unraid is the community. When I don't know how to do something, I can usually find a walk-through easily.

 

I would like to see support for multiple arrays added in 2020.

Love the community aspect of Unraid. The wide user-base that ranges from beginners to enterprise sys-admins and the amazing third-party devs really drew me to explore the software and be more comfortable with Linux.

 

Would love to see an out-of-the-box, user opt-in function for system stats reporting so users who'd like to gain more insight into what their systems are doing won't have to rely on multiple third-party dockers/apps/plugins. 

I argued that I cannot pick *JUST* one thing I like most about Unraid. So I will say besides how easy it is to add different sized hard drives.

 

The thing I like most about Unraid is the great Docker APPS.

I like how easy it is to just add or replace drives without having them all be the same size.

I would like to see the ability to have multiple arrays. 

I love that I can do so many things all inside one system: NAS, VM’s, Dockers. It’s so cool!

 

id love to see named VM templates that let me easily boot a VM using slightly different settings depending on which one I select.

I like the ease of upgrade-ability. 

 

I would like to see a built-in secure connection method for access from outside the network, and an iOS App!

Easily being able to expand/shrink the array and using different size drives.

 

I would like to see a clustering function to have multiple instances of unraid sharing resources and being able to move vms.

The fact that I can add multiple drives in different size is the biggest selling point for me.  That means I don't have to worry about purchasing the same drive when a drive failed in a traditional RAID setup.

 

There are times when I put the files that I am putting into my cache drive exceeded the size of the cache drive, therefore my file transfer failed.  It would be nice if the 'mover' can kick in automatically if it hits certain pre-configured threshold.

1 hour ago, beyonddc said:

It would be nice if the 'mover' can kick in automatically if it hits certain pre-configured threshold.

You could use the Mover Tuning plugin to achieve this.   This may not always be the ideal answer, though, if you can download faster than mover can transfer the files to the array.

 

Alternatively make sure the Minimum Free Space value under  Settings->Global Share Settings is larger than the largest file you expect to download and then when the cache free space drops below this any new downloads will start by-passing the cache rather than failing.

- one thing you like most about Unraid:

The clear and good interface. Its understandable and easy to use also for newbies and of course the community!

 

- one thing you'd like to see added to the OS in 2020

Already added with the new login Screen

I started to use unRAID because it was a complete package. It includes well-tested software that was designed to be working together and do it reliably. Plus it came with community support.

 

I would love to see VM snapshots being added in 2020. Would make testing and creating new base VMs (with some initial configuration) so much more convenient.