Love the simplicity of adding dockers and VM hardware passthrough. 

 

I'd love to see am increase on the drive limit on both the array and parity drives.

Edited December 27, 20196 yr by jrdnlc

I love the hardware flexibility. Adding mismatched drives is a thing. That's what made me interested in Unraid.

 

Being able to load balance with clustered servers would be a nice addition.

Love Unraid. Simple interface and setup.

It just works.

Favourite thing: reliability of operation

 

Feature I'd like to see added: setup wizard/check of system configuration with recommendations for improvements like better security or remote access to help onboarding new users

One thing thing I love - the simplicity of adding new containers through the community aggregated app store,

 

Something I would like to see added in 2020, VM snapshots would be radical.  

 

Thanks for all your hard work and happy new year!

 

 

Below is my rambling testament to what I like about the platform far outside the scope of the entry requirements

 

How do I leave it to one thing. 

I love the community app store, which makes docker simple to work with . Yes, once you grasp how to use docker or docker compose, then it is simple enough.  However, developers love their shorthand and instructions on github and dockerhub tend to be a bit barebones with assumptions made that the end user will "know how to open a linux socket" for instance.  

I love how this software really re-sparked my interest in tech (though it has become a quite expensive interest).  This has now led to multiple servers, rack mounted switches, re-purposed hardware for a pfsense router/firewall, and countless new projects with which to learn new things.  

I love having virtualization so easily handy so I can spin up a VM or launch a container to teach myself IP PBX software, Windows Server, IPTV through TVheadend (which is then ported into Plex through Xteve or tvheadend), CC TV security through Shinobi or Blue Iris, countless Linux distros, hosting my own website, sharing my media with family, having Terabytes of Storage at the ready (plus the ability to easily pop in more drives individually at a whim).  

I love being able to run a VPN to get into my server from my office and access any of my files though my own cloud service (be it OwnCloud, NextCloud, or OpenVPN and mapping a windows network share).  

I love not dealing with external Hard Drives.

I love Space Invaders video tutorials for all of the above. 

I love that this forum exists and Reddit too.  For support or simply to inspire new ideas for the next project / learning experience.  

Everything posted above doesn't scratch the surface of all this software does and all that I have done with this software.

I love that it keeps getting better with each release and every addition to the community app store.

I also love that it keeps showing me how much more there is to learn and how much further I can research and develop my skills in tech.  Be it learning Linux, enterprise and networking hardware, network administration, systems/server administration, software development, etc.  As I said this has re-sparked my interest in tech and is steadily getting me closer to my goal of working in tech, as I am currently studying to acquire certifications for Cisco and maybe M$ too.

As I said it is hard to keep it to just one like, as this software has opened the door to so much for me.

Edited January 1, 20206 yr by 88pockets
To simplify my 1 like 1 addon feature

one thing you like most about Unraid 

* low maintenance and uptime are why I run unRAID

 

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

* organize docker apps into categories or folders in the GUI

Learning How to Setup a DIY RAID with windows VM!!!

I love unraid for the true jbod experience, having moved from freenas, the ui and features by well worth the pricetag.

 

I'd love to see proper ssd, m2 and nvme integration, including full flash arrays, or at least improve compatibility of them. Implementing a number of community addons and plugins would be nice as well.

I love being able to back up multiple drives onto one drive.

 

I'm not tech savvy enough to make a recommendation. I think I've only scratched the surface of the possible.

I love how I can have a bunch of VMs that can all share CPU resources and play games at the same time.

The GUI is amazing!

 

I would love to see fail over protection with vms and docker containers.

I love it's extensibility and power.

I would love native support for ZFS instead of having to use unassigned devices. 

I love unraid for the user ability if 30 disks In an array and would love to see larger than 30 disks for multiple 30 disks arrays with same controller

Access and simplicity of Dockers! Amazing product, thank you.

I love the how easy it is to control where your Shares are stored on the Cache Pool or Array and then watch the magic of Mover as it shuffles your files around.

 

I too would love ZFS support either for the Cache Pool or a 2nd Cache Pool.

I'm relatively new to unRAID , having just joined the dark side in the past less than 30 days. Since then, I have spent countless hours on the forums and have even had two interactions with the support team ( my own fault for some licensing issues and new , unsupported thumb drive). 

 

This community is, simply put, amazing. I have not seen such a helpful , friendly knowledgeable environment in all my many years dregging the shores of the web. This is what drew me in and is likely what will keep me here. 

 

As far as a feature I would like to see included in the future, native zfs and zfs encryption support. While there is a zfs plugin in existence, I would like native support for encrypted drives. And zfs for caching may be a bit appropriate / stable than btrfs. 

 

Regardless of that, I am happy I made the decision to ditch free-nas and give unRAID a shot, and will be purchasing several license for home and rest servers in the near future. 

Love the fact that you can throw a bunch of disk together and get all the utilities and not have to spend a ton of money. 

 

 

 

I like to see ZFS as file system. 

I love how simple it is to setup that I have gotten 3 different familes onto unRAID for their homes.

 

I would love to see changes so that when changes are made to the VM template any uneffected changes that have been added or changed in XML view aren't removed.

Love the ability to run multiple VM's all with nice specs

 

ZFS for sure

I love the docker funktions because of this i can easy add managment servers for somany things without the need for a Virtual Maschine.

In 2020 I would like to see would be a per share backup possibility.

I like that in only my first week of using it I was able to spin up a 40TB array with 2x4TB parity drives and a 250GB cache drive in a matter of hours. Then when my Unifi NVR box died, I was able to bring up a replacement, allocate storage for it, and get it up and running with all my cameras connected and recording in less than 30 minutes. If I want to add more storage, it just takes a few clicks to allocate more to the share. I've done freenas and other drive pool systems, but how everything works so easily takes a lot of headache out of setting up this host. All of these things made it really easy for me to pull the trigger on the unlimited license.

 

I'd like to see more notification agents going forward such as Pushover and Telegram bot integration as well as official docker support, the community driven one is good, but it always gives some piece of mind when it's from the official developers. 

Edited December 27, 20196 yr by sworcery
added things

I love unRaid's flexibility and ease of use. 
 

Wishlist: native ZFS

My favorite feature of unraid has to be the dashboard. All your NAS information at a glance. Beyond that, it’s Linux based so we get all the The great software and features of the Linux kernel such as Docket container support and KVM machines.

 

id love to see a clustering feature in a future release that would allow containers and virtual machines to fail over to another node in even of an outage. Maybe use Kubernetes or docker swarm to accomplish this?

I love build in docker and would love for multiple arrays or/and more storage capacity in terms of maximum amount of drives

My favorite feature is that just a month ago, my old server had a power supply failure.  I grabbed another server that could support my drives.  Moved my USB stick and drives, booted up, it picked up all my settings and drives.  Just verified they were back in their slots....BAM!  back in business.

 

Would love to see a more robust Docker config backup or a way to export a config backup and import it through the console instead of command line.