

is that correct? It seems that unRAID is a bit more flexible of the two, because if I start with 4x8TB, I can add 4TB/2TB/1TB freely. Right now, I've looked into running Arch bare-metal with SnapRAID (although I don't fully understand how SnapRAID works yet), and I've also looked at unRAID and XPEnology, with just running Arch on top of KVM and passing through a GPU.įrom what I can tell, unRAID lets me add drives lesser or equal to one parity drive, and XPEnology lets me add drives greater or equal to all the drives in the SHR array. running out of SATA ports and drive bays in my desktop tower, though. I used to run my home server stuff (Subsonic, Samba, Calibre, VNC, etc.) on Arch Linux since 2012, JBOD style. (This eliminates FreeNAS as an option.)Ģ) $0.00 (Bonus points for open-source or libre solutions, but I'm willing to compromise if none exist.) So, here's what I'm looking for primarily:ġ) Add a drive any time I want, when I can afford it, of any size. I'm not really too jazzed with unRAID's pricing or licensing schema, but I've got a bunch of hardware around which I want to build a storage/VM/media server, and unRAID looks like the closest thing to a good fit. 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 '”


Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data - legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g.
