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Experimented with various approaches, looking to replace an older Pegasus set of 6 drives and a file server.
Unraid just worked. Lots of support and tutorials to get started. Look up Spaceinvader on YouTube as a starter
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bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I went with proxmox and various LXCs for either individual services or docker stacks with several things on a minimal os (I’m comfortable with Ubuntu server so that’s what I go with generally as the unpriv LXC)
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For the time being I’m content with my little raspberry pi 5 running debian. I can stream 4K on my home network and that’s all the performance I need for now.
linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 1 day ago
Far. Fedora + ZFS for my NAS that’s consumed by a 3-node bare-metal Kubernetes cluster running Talos. K8s has a ZFS provisioner that automatically creates new volumes when I spin something up. It more or less just works.
Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
When remodelling my NAS I was tempted to go for unraid as well, but in the end I chose OMV. Aside from some minor problems here and there it has been running great.
artiman@piefed.social 1 day ago
TrueNAS
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why would you go from Arch to unraid?
With all due respect, Arch isn’t good for servers. That isn’t to say Arch is bad but it isn’t designed for long term stability.
B0rax@feddit.org 1 day ago
I actually bought unraid before it became a subscription. And I must say, i really like it.
I am currently looking into Proxmox to build a small cluster to prevent critical services from becoming unavailable whenever I do stupid things… but… compared to unraid the learning curve and ease of use is much more brutal.
Artaca@lemdro.id 1 day ago
Have one unraid lifetime license, just paid for a second license yearly for my backup off-site machine. Been using truenas on the off-site, but its primary storage is USB which I didn’t realize truenas isn’t fond of. Ah well. It’ll be a little easier this way, anywho.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Everyone here is telling you to ditch Arch for Debian, I absolutely agree with them however, if you’re so hell bent on having an Arch server than install Proxmox VE to the host and run both Debian and Arch, getting it working in Debian first then try to replicate it with Arch, compare the differences.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My travels took me from Raspberry Pi and Raspberry PI OS/Rasbpian over to Debian then to TrueNAS + Linux mounted NFS and PVE hosts.
No going to fake RAID unraid. Not paying for harddrives and then again for something TrueNAS does for free.Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I fucking LOVE my Unraid server, but I’ve had it for many years and they’ve since changed their pricing. A very, very solid WebUI.
I paid like $40 just once for it, and it looks like it’s $90 now. Honestly I’d still pay that, it has been immensely helpful to get me started as my first homelab.
And btw I use Arch for my desktop whenever I use Linux.
I helped a friend build a server to use Unraid for his new house, and to get him started with Home Assistant and the arr stack. He’s always been fairly good with computers, but had 0 Linux experience. After about 6 months he became self efficient and no longer needed to ask for help.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My first homelab server is running unRAID. No real complaints from me. It’s been running for years no issues other than the crap hardware it runs on (i7-3770, 32GB RAM). I have some file shares, docker, and some VMs. The UI makes it really easy to do stuff, especially if you don’t want to have to research and manage everything.
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fair warning unraid is slow… A friend tried unraid and absolutley hated it because file transfer was verry slow in comparison to both arch and windows.
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t use unraid I use XCP-ng instead.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
[deleted]SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 day ago
Because it's a hypervisor, not a NAS.
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
After having some issues with TrueNAS killing containers after updates, I went to Unraid and have never been happier. TrueNAS file sharing permissions also never did make sense to me. I got them to work but never quite grok’d them. Unraid performs exactly like I’d expect. I hand rolled a NAS using Ubuntu way back in the day and didn’t have the desire to tinker on the NAS side of things too much.
On Unraid, I roll a larger xfs array for all of my media and large storage, then I have a two disk ZFS array for my more important documents and pictures. That gets archived up to the xfs array and my cache nvme drives have their own ZFS pool. I don’t gain a ton by doing this, it was just fun to set up and I feel reasonably secure with my personal data.
I also run a smaller, lower powered machine with Proxmox and I run Home Assistant on it. Mostly because of tinkering with hardware support in Home Assistant, I didn’t want it messing with my NAS needing restarts and such. But, Unraid is my workhorse. Day in, day out, it does exactly what I suspect with no surprises. I’ve had drives go bad and need replaced. I’ve had the whole machine just die and had to build a new machine. Unraid did exactly what I expected and needed every step of the way. The docker support is fantastic and super stable. Running multiples of the exact same container by duplicating and with only different port settings works great. I can’t say that for my independent docker installs without a bunch of tinkering on things I couldn’t seem to find enough about when I ran into issues.
I tinker on the things I enjoy. I do not enjoy having an unusable server. The anxiety is actually pretty insane for me. I would pay for Unraid many times over to get this combination of factors.