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The limitation I refer to is you're basically building something set in stone as far as capacity is concerned, you can't just throw another drive in and expand your volume. Myself I've been using FreeNAS and later TrueNAS for six years or more and it's good, I am however just about to build by first unRAID server, partly to test it out and partly because of the limitations of TruNAS.

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You could get a pdu installed and a rack with three hosts and a san plus a nas for veeam backups but that's not home use, that's a sme with a budget. It totally depends on how much money you want to throw at a 'perfect' solution. I'm running plex, sickrage, couch potato and and a bunch of VMs on a FX8350 with 32gb of ram and 4 3tb drives (3 WD reds and 1 green with the idle timeout changed), and I am planning on upgrading to more drives in the near future, however I don't want to have to clear my NAS to properly expand drives - that is why I moved from FreeNas in the first place.īased on what you have said it sounds like you have quite a while until you reach the 28 drive max, I think you will be better served by unRAID for the current time, and evaluate options after you max it out - personally I would almost look at visualizing a second unRAID system if you want to expand beyond the the limit - that way you're not stuck with the all or nothing cap - or apparently FreeNas is adding random drive expansion in the future, it may be something to look at. Personally, I like FreeNas more from a features/interface/performance perspective, and if I was maxing out disk space I would run it as a first choice.īUT I run unRAID at home simply because it allows adding of random disks. I will be adding drives over time and while I can get all drives of the same size I'd prefer if it could handle variability.įor a business I would run FreeNas no question. I do not necessarily need docker but it is convenient because I do need it to run plex. I will be storing applications (and running them), media, disk images, documents, vdisks for vms I'd appreciate some weighins on where to actually go with this (just 28 drives, freenas and live with it, etc.) or some alternative I've missed I have considered setting up an ubuntu server installation with everything but I'd rather not. I do have the space to add 64ish drives to the configuration so I'd like to be able to take advantage of that. FreeNAS seems to be overall better (besides some people saying FreeBSD is suboptimal for drive access speeds) but having to add drives and entire vdev at a time isn't great cost-wise. unRAID seems to be generally not recommended but the SMB drive pools and easy VM setup is attractive. unRAID lets me add a single drive whenever I want but maxes out at 28 data drives and 2 for parity. I've been looking at the differences between the two and I am currently using unRAID and perfectly happy with it, but I'm only using 5 drives as of now. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”

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