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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 8 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] smegger@aussie.zone 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unraid is easy to start with when you have no idea what you're doing. Other stuff often requires more up front work to setup.

The paid licence is just the cost of the conveniences.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

UnRAID is also great when you know exactly what you’re doing but you do this stuff for work every day and your home stuff you want to be easy and out of the box lol.

[–] andronicus@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

My only regret is that I have only one upvote to give this post.

Just because I have the skills to setup a cluster of mini-pcs doesn't mean I want to spend my one-precious-fucking-spare-hour a day making the thing work.

See also: a builder's house, a mechanic's car etc

[–] Kettrick@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Same, I'm a Linux user since redhat 5 and more than capable of running all the unraid features on a regular Linux distro or proxmox, truenas, whatever ... I just don't want to, I want flexible disk sizes and a bunch of docker containers, that's it. Unraid offers that in a great package.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it much easier than TrueNAS?

I went with TrueNAS because it's open-source, and it's been smooth sailing.

(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)

[–] WASTECH@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I’ve tried both Unraid and TrueNAS. While I greatly prefer TrueNAS, Unraid is much easier to set up and get going for beginners. It’s been a while since I’ve set up TrueNAS from scratch, but last I tried, it wasn’t a very beginner friendly experience. If you weren’t already familiar with ZFS, you were in for a pretty difficult time.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Couldn't say, for me it was way way easier than ESXI which was my first break into the space. And also more complete / straightforward than bare metal which was what I had been doing before unraid.

I paid for the lifetime license. No regrets.