▲ 140 ▼ Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu) submitted 11 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 75 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 11 months ago (3 children) Can 100% do this. Not just kinda. Works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 3 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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