KaKi87Oct 19

Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?

https://jlai.lu/post/27456341

Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? - jlai.lu

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 ? Thanks

Show threadsmeggerOct 19

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.

Show threadEncrypt-Keeper
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.
Oct 19 at 6:18pmWeb
Show threadandronicusOct 19

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

Show threadKettrickOct 20
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.