▲ 129 ▼ Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu) submitted 1 year ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Can 100% do this. Not just kinda. Works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array? I haven't used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago It can't, you lose space efficiency if the disks you add aren't the same size as the old disks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eclipse@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Not really with the same flexibility. You only get usable capacity of the smallest disk in a vdev or you have to add a new vdev with your newly sized disks. Unraid lets you mix and match however you like and get all the usable capacity (as long as your parity is your largest sized disks). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array? I haven't used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago It can't, you lose space efficiency if the disks you add aren't the same size as the old disks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eclipse@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Not really with the same flexibility. You only get usable capacity of the smallest disk in a vdev or you have to add a new vdev with your newly sized disks. Unraid lets you mix and match however you like and get all the usable capacity (as long as your parity is your largest sized disks). permalink fedilink source parent