I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?

  • MrGandalf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have tried few of them but I highly recommend you to try UNRAID. It will introduce you to world of docker containers

    • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I run UnRAID myself as well. I don’t need raw performance, just stupid amounts of storage for my data hoard, and being able to slap in whatever disk has the best $:gb whenever I need to expand has been such a nice change.

      I do have a SSD pool to run my containers and separate one for drive caching as well.

        • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Hadn’t heard of it, seems like it’s similar to Unraid, but parity has to be manually syncd whereas UnRAID syncs constantly?

          • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Kinda, but it can accept JBOD and you can add new disks of any size whenever you want without the need to reconstruct everything (things that I think that’s necessary with UnRAID, or am I wrong?)

            • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
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              11 months ago

              When adding/removing disks you do have to rebuild parity, but it’s not the end of the world and it handles it automatically. I run parity checks pretty often anyway (every other week) and it takes the same amount of time.

              I just like the Unraid UI and Docker implementation tbh. I used to run everything off Portainer/Compose on my QNAP which was great, but these days I am lazy and having an Update All button is 🤌

              • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Can you add disks of different sizes? With SnapRAID if I put a single disks in a different PC, the data is still readable, is this the same with UnRAID? Thanks for the info!

                • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  11 months ago

                  Yepp exact same as Unraid, I have 3x 18tbs one of which is Parity, and a couple old 4gbs I need to drop but am too lazy to do so 😅. Can add whatever size but the parity drive has to be at least the same size as the largest drive in the pool.