Setup a personal NAS OS // Unraid Tutorial

[@DaTurkeyslayer]

This is by FAR the most educational and helpful video I have come across on this. Thank you so much!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much for the kind words :)

[@awarepenguin3376]

I just refreshed hoping to see more Unraid content. Great uploads ! Liked and subscribed ! I struggle with choosing truenas over Unraid, truenas has always worked for me and the speed is insane, but Unraid is just so simple to use.

[@mattscheurman1616]

I love UnRAID. I started with FreeNAS (precursor to TrueNAS) and ultimately decided to go with UnRAID. The biggest deciding factor for me was the ease of expandability. If I wanted to add a drive on FreeNAS, I had to rebuild everything. If I wanted to increase a drive size, same thing, had to start over. If you didn't have the resources to create your entire NAS at the time of building on FreeNAS, then you had to go through a lot more pain than UnRAID. In addition, I thought the FreeBSD jails were a pain to deal with compared to UnRAID's use of dockers in Linux. This maybe all a moot point now that TrueNAS has a Linux version (Scale), but I left for UnRAID and have been REALLY happy with my decision since and haven't looked back or regretted it.

[@adfjasjhf]

Fully agree! Was looking into TrueNAS but the expandability threw me away and I bought UnRaid instead.

[@wojciechk7557]

As user of both systems, both are good. Truenas seem to be more advanced where Unraid is more oriented to home. But where unraid shines is support, not toxic community, and ease of use. Deploy of container , installing plugins is much simpler on unraid for example

[@christianlempa]

Couldn’t agree more

[@arieladamczech3448]

Hi Christian, as you've build your first Storage Server with truenas, you have already inspired me to do the same. I also got the same 24 bay enclosure as you bought back then with a 24 port hba card. But instead of going with truenas, I already went with Unraid. Thanks for the video and the new beta features. These are also new to me :)

[@christianlempa]

Ah, interesting! :D So you made the smarter choice hehe

[@arieladamczech3448]

@@christianlempa haha I feeling honored, but no I just had known that I don't need the performance of an Truenas Pool. I am most of the time the only user on my storage and the throughput is enough for a single user. But I missing the security of bitroot protection. Viele Grüße und danke für deine Videos. Habe da schon so einiges für mein Server übernommen (authentik, traefik, etc.) und meiner Meinung mein favorite KZbin channel 😀.

[@espressomatic]

USB boot drive is automatically and regularly backed up locally and/or to the cloud if you set up Unraid with their Connect plugin. It takes mere seconds to restore a backup to a new USB key with the Unraid image tool (available for ALL OSes) and a few seconds more to transfer the license - which can be done online immediately when you boot your restored backup.

[@chris582]

This probably covers my last hesitation with Unraid. I just want something as simple and flexible as Drivepool, and Unraid probably is it. Thanks! I’ll probable just wait for ZFS to come out fully stable on Unraid so that I can ZFS a small set of disks for critical stuff and throw the rest into simple pooled spinners.

[@2takt-hst]

bin auf die Serie sehr gespannt. Danke dafür. Suchte aber eigentlich jedes viddeo von dir.

[@DaTurkeyslayer]

This was the video I needed. When I bought unraid I did NOT realize the default array couldn't be set to use ZFS type technology to increase throughput. I will probably be moving over at least part of my array at some point to be able to edit remotely off my server. But we will see

[@christianlempa]

Glad I could help!

[@moebius2k103]

You didn't mention the 'Mover' function. You should have a fast NVME ZFS Cache pool and then Mover will move data to the Unraid array disks after hours.

[@dancoon7653]

I've just started my free trail of UNRAID yesterday and Im loving it. I personally choose UNRAID because of the ability to use different size disks (So I dont have to shell out £££ for a bunch of 12tb drives all at once). My Rasp Pi 4 OMV NAS kept falling over (It was only ever something to get me going) so I bit the bullet and jist grabbed a few bits of cheap random hardware to get me started for now. Maybe grabbing old disks off friends and family wasnt the greatest idea though as EVERY disk in the array has read errors and also I slmehow managed to grab a dodgy network cable from the drawer that kept dropping the network and was running at 100mbs. Cable is sorted and Ive dumped some random (none critical) data on the drives and ill go get myself some decent big drives from CEX tomorrow (second hand but have a 2 year warranty). It will be gold to learn how to swap out the disks at this point rather than panic when its full of all the familes photos, videos and drone footage.

[@christianlempa]

Awesome!

[@AmazingJ1985]

Also don’t forgot that using an Unraid Array with SSD is not recommended as they don’t support Auto Trim. If you want to use SSD then use a cache pool which supports the Auto Trim feature.

[@christianlempa]

Great tip, thanks for sharing

[@t288msd]

Excellent video. One of the things I love about unraid is that my disks are spun down much of the time when not in use saving power and disk life. Truenas I couldnt get them to spindown due to constant log writing or apps keeping them open

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :) Totally agree

[@39zack]

You cant spin down invidual drives in an raid due to data striping.

[@espressomatic]

It's not just a good NAS OS, it's a great services OS. I use it instead of TrueNAS for NAS. I use it instead of Portainer for Docker containers. Instead of Proxmox for LXC and VM. Four production systems currently running with completely different hardware and for different purposes, all based on Unraid on the back end. 2.5G and 10G networking. Just make sure you're using Unraid version 7 and newer. Remember that you can also expand the capabilities with plugins and containers, so CA certificates (as an example) is super easy and there are a lot of ways to do it. ACME, Reverse Proxy, Certbot, etc.

[@Tri-Technology]

Can you explain please how to deal with certificates if unraid is only running local? (no port forwarding)

[@peterr.4768]

I always wanted to know how to use a LetsEncrypt Certificate with Unraid to avoid that unsafe connection popup in the browser. Couldn’t get it working together with Unraid Connect.

[@LucaTheITPilot]

Hi Christian, did you get a chance to check the power consumption of the server? I'm thinking about to build something very similar and unfortunately power is something we need to consider in the decision. thanks for your amazing content and for sharing it with us

[@christianlempa]

I'm still exploring other hardware options for power efficiency, since the power consumption is still too high in my opinion. I will let you know once I sorted out the problems ;)

[@koloblicin4599]

Perfect timing 🙏 had a hard time deciding, but i guess I'll go with unraid. 3xhdd as array (one cold) for backup, media and data storage, 4xssd as zraid1 for VMs and 2xnvme as small (mirrored?) cache pool 🤔

[@christianlempa]

Awesome! Sounds like a great idea

[@AndyJMacLeod]

Thanks for the tutorial. As an Unraid newbie, it gave me some confidence to give it a try. My setup will be a Beelink EQR6 mini PC (Ryzen 5 6600H 24GB) with two 4TB NVMe SSDs. I'll primarily be using the NAS for Time Machine backups for two different Macs (each with 1TB SSDs), and a backup for about 125GB of family photos (currently stored only in iCloud Photos). Our combined (current) storage is less than 1TB in total. My question is: should I use one of the 4TB SSDs as a parity drive? Or is it overkill to backup a backup? Maybe I'll be better served by keeping the full 8TB available for the future? (Although I think even 4TB would last a long time). I'm budgeting about 1TB for each Mac's Time Machine backups (although I think that's very generous). And zfs vs xfs? Still getting my head around the Unraid array and storage pools etc. I like the fact that booting from the USB flash drive frees-up both SSDs for storage. And I prefer tinkering with technology rather than going for a turnkey solution (e.g. Synology). I will probably try Plex and other apps, but backup/storage is definitely the main priority.

[@RandomizerVidz]

Does not neaid support iscsi share with zfs?

[@ich777]

@christianlempa Wo ist das follow up? :D Hast dir schon die RC.2 angesehen und die Tailscale Docker integration?

[@christianlempa]

Ist in Arbeit! :D Hier ist schonmal der Vergleich: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ7Tq5qZqNGEiLMsi=Dji1rDR3T-G6IzS- Hab mir die RC 2 noch nicht angesehen, ich warte, bis das finale Update kommt

[@ich777]

@ hab ich schon gesehen. :) Zur stable wird sich nicht mehr viel ändern bzw. sollte das jetzt eigentlich schon der finale feature freeze sein in der RC.2

[@ArturoRubio-h3i]

which router are you running in the lab ?

[@christianlempa]

My router is a FritzBox, and as a Firewall the Sophos XGS

[@africantwin173]

How do you get the ASrock Intel arc 380 gpu working on Unraid Plex Docker

[@wolfrudel7624]

Great tutorial video👍 Please make more tutorial videos to unraid 7🙏

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! :) We will see

[@TheMystery0]

I second that request!

[@tarose71]

If anyone has experience with this and QNAP, I have a question: I have a rack mounted server with 6 120(ish)GB SATA SSD drives in a raid5, currently running Proxmox so I can learn about all this stuff, and I also have a QNAP NAS currently housing 2x 1TB NVMe M.2 drvies, 2x 1TB SATA SSD drives, and 6x SATA drives, but I think it has capacity for 1 more NVMe and 1 more SATA SSD plus 2 more regular SATA spindle drives ... but I do use the QNAP QSYNC which is nice and user friendly ... does UNRAID have something similar for replacing QSYNC or would Proxmox handle this aspect? ... and if I were to replace QTS with UNRAID, would it be something like the following: use 2 mirrored drives (RAID0) on server to run Proxmox, use USB into QNAP NAS to run UNRAID, and then Proxmox can connect an UNRAID virtual machine with the other 4 SATA drives in a cluster with the remote UNRAID on the QNAP NAS, and then either UNRAID or Proxmox replaces QSYNC functionality ..? ... or have I totally misunderstood something here?

[@thomasp1807]

Ein Video von dir zum Thema Backups in/von Unraid wäre toll, das ist in Unraid nicht so toll gelöst bzw User friendly

[@christianlempa]

Ja da stimm ich dir zu, tatsächlich ist das noch eine Baustelle bei mir, ich werde mir irgendwann nächstes Jahr mal gedanken darüber machen ;)

[@AinzOoalG0wn]

but what features does unraid have over truenas (that cost zero to use) to be a substantial improvement over it? Truenas does everything i need, so that is why i never bothered looking at unraid. Not to say it's bad cauz u have to pay for a license (nothing wrong with charging to make profit and pay the bills). But it still doesnt change the fact truenas is free to use for homelabbers, and it's plenty good enough for most people. That nitpick aside, either way, i doubt you can go wrong with either one. They both use ZFS and are serious about keeping your data as safe/reliable as possible. And they have the least amount of bloat compared to other alternatives.

[@christianlempa]

I've recently made a comparison video about Unraid vs TrueNAS, maybe that will answer some of your questions

[@Damien-km1vl]

Why everyone has stuck their mind in dark mode? Nothing can justify that :)

[@EdwardBlair]

GET TO DA HARD DRAIVE

[@OlindoPindaro]

Benchmark pleas

[@christianlempa]

Coming soon :D

[@OlindoPindaro]

@@christianlempa I suspect that true nas is more and more fast

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

I wish this "setup" had more useful tools as well.. like community plugins.

[@christianlempa]

I'm still exploring that area, maybe in the future ;)

[@SnazzieTV]

Annoyingly you can setup user share with size limit

[@darthkielbasa]

Oh boy. These comments are gonna be wild AF.

[@christianlempa]

Not on my channel ;)

[@RupertoCamarena]

nothing like truenas and free! never got back to unraid bay the way i sell my unlimited licence

[@39zack]

😂😂😂

[@linodexplod1575]

Hi Chris, would you consider donating some of your unused hardware to my home community. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

[@christianlempa]

Hm no, that's not a thing I'd consider.

[@paulogodinho3275]

[@iConk3r]

Feels like you and TechnoTim were paid by UnRaid to pretend like it's the new best thing.

[@christianlempa]

I wish they'd sent me some money for this :D

[@Mr7979897]

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[@mithubopensourcelab482]

Sorry.... Truenas is much better... I do not like the idea of usb booting / software licensing ... A big no no no.

[@FlightdeckJohnny]

Sorry. Truenas is too limited but a good start nas

[@salpertia]

Physical security is important.

[@39zack]

And I dont like to be locked to zfs and using an disk connection for the OS seems like waste of storage space

[@ultimatemaverick]

TrueNAS is better for YOUR needs, not everyone else.

[@LXJ1974]

I run both. TrueNas as main secure storage and Unraid as home server. Uses less power and if anything goes sideways, there is a TrueNas to save a day.

[@JohnWeland]

first?

[@niffumau]

Haha

[@maximilinahenrich2116]

secound

[@dorofteiionutz3952]

It has allot of features. Like truenas scale, that is free. It is just a unraid commercial. It used to be a selfhosting , opensource chanell.

[@espressomatic]

TrueNAS doesn't have a lot of features.

[@dorofteiionutz3952]

@@espressomatic Like what ? What does unraid has and truenas does not ?

[@adfjasjhf]

@@dorofteiionutz3952 Easy expandability

[@sloraris]

Good channels cover alternatives. Unraid is a TrueNAS alternative, and a pretty good one. I'll still choose TrueNAS scale because I like my mirrored boot drives, but options are never a bad thing to have in the Homelab space.

[@39zack]

@@dorofteiionutz3952 flexibility. TrueNas locks you to zfs

Samba performance is just horrible

[@OlindoPindaro]

Say more please

@@OlindoPindaro I use Unraid 6.12.13 and Win10 as Samba client, and transfer is slow, listing is slow while transfer is in progress and so on. Meanwhile Qnap samba works flawlessly. I wonder if Truenas's smb share inside Unraid (with direct access to hdd-s) would be faster.

[@OlindoPindaro]

I use samba with truena32, 24gb and throghput is 280MBs with 2x2.5gb nic anda ssd cache

[@OlindoPindaro]

Raidz2 with 4x14tb sata hdd

[@andrewbroadfort6856]

The first place to start is performance. Specifically performance for files that do not reside on the cache drives. Every NAS review needs to start with performance. Everything else is secondary.

[@espressomatic]

And performance is disk format and network bound. A ZFS RAIDZ pool on SMB is going to be just as fast sitting on Unraid or TrueNAS

[@adfjasjhf]

I always look into expandability first, performance is always second. If I can't expand it easily at any point of time, it's not worth looking into

[@tendosingh5682]

It is called NAS not PAS. Most of us just want a reasonable cost reliable storage as priority.

[@FlightdeckJohnny]

The first place to start for you. Ok

[@Damien-km1vl]

1 : performance on Unraid is only an issue when writing in Array when Turbo Write is not active. In others cases (that is almost all cases), performance is almost the same. 2 : on unraid array, if you loses more disks than the number of parity drive, you don't lose all your data, that's more important than performance. 3 : as said on 1 performance, and as Array is not mandatory anymore, you can have 0 issues with performance, just use btrfs or zfs pools. 4 : Unraid Array as a big advantage, you don't have to spin up all your drives when you want to read or write into one of them. 5 : NAS review should start with storage features, then you can choose between performance and services (but we are not all looking for performance), especially when the review OS has a specific way to do storage. 6 : in Unraid array allow you to add the number of disks you want, with different sizes, in a minutes. Try to get that on TrueNAS... 7 : Unraid is NOT just a NAS, it's a complete plateform with Storage (both raid and array), Docker, VM, LXC (with plugin), and much more.