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neatobuilds@lemmy.today 3 days ago
My coworker recommended me unraid, so I tried it and similarly I was upgrading to a new gaming rig so my old gaming rig became my server. It was a mini itx i7 and I started with two 2tb hard drives then just went from there. Learning all the arrs by following the ‘trash guides’ then expanding out. A lot of trial and error and slowly upgrading drives over time.
Now I’m close to 100tb of data and have several family members using my plex server as their only streaming service plus a ton of personal stuff like rss and audio books etc
Nighed@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I only know of it from LTT videos I think, not exactly the best endorsement!
That’s a lot of data (relatively)! Are you paying for the unraid license yearly, or just sitting on an old version?
lucid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I also started off with a converted gaming PC. I went with unraid because there was a simple path to upgrading my drives. I started off with 1 and 2 TB drives and eventually upgraded over the years to 12+ TB drives.
From my brief research back then growing a pool in freenas was a headache where upgrading in unraid was easy.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yeah I have the lifetime license from before they switched to a yearly subscription, for me as I was pretty new to the whole thing it just made it super simple to get up and running, now I’m setting up dockers in compose so still learning but being able to just go to the community app store and use the templates to get things up and running right away was super nice, and the ability to upgrade drives as you go as well