Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 10 hours ago
It’s less hassle than maintaining my homelab was when I used Ubuntu server. Just because I can do it the “hard way”, doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy easy mode and not having to do much of anything.
They give you exactly what they promise with zero enshitification. It’s a solid product and was worth it to me to buy, just for the convenience.
CallMeMrFlipper@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I get that. But at the same time, when shit does go wrong, it’s so much harder to work around their whole system when it’s so unfamiliar. I’m not speaking from experience with unraid. Just other NAS solutions (TrueNAS) and other “easy mode” options from other tech. I almost always end up tossing it out for the less hand-holing option. Because then I have to understand it, and if I understand it, it becomes so much easier.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 7 minutes ago
I’ve never once had anything go wrong with Unraid. But even if I did, it’s pretty painless to restore a backup since the OS is on a USB drive and isn’t very big.