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@HomeSysAdmin Жыл бұрын
I think my vote's going to TrueNAS. I may have to give it a try.
@Fiberton Жыл бұрын
Virtual machine gpu bug. They did a recent patch for it and fixed it for a lot of people. Hence your issue.
@TekJumble Жыл бұрын
TrueNAS for sure.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
@@Fiberton Good to know I was like... great always while filming a video.
@tjb_altf4 Жыл бұрын
You know my dude :) Unraid for sure!
@TrueNAS Жыл бұрын
We're team #TrueNAS but we might be biased!
@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Жыл бұрын
Same 😀
@kbmorris21 Жыл бұрын
LOL. In my opinion you just can't beat BSD. That's the real differentiation between these two storage operating systems and the reason I side with True Blue TrueNAS.
@NeptuneSega Жыл бұрын
@@kbmorris21 Scale is Linux based and has more features. It's the future going forward
@pprocacci Жыл бұрын
@@kbmorris21 Yep, BSD is such a joy to work with. I'll be sticking with TrueNas Core ... well ... forever unless something drastic happens.
@briccimn Жыл бұрын
@@kbmorris21 but TrueNAS SCALE is Debian based, so no BSD underlying.
@AnthonyNelsonYYZ Жыл бұрын
I'm Team Unraid. My installation has been around for 15+ years, evolving seamlessly alongside my needs. I've undergone 4 motherboard and CPU upgrades, incorporated new drive controllers, and accumulated a diverse array of drive sizes. What began with just 3 drives 1 TB drive has now expanded to a total of 14. All on the same USB key from 15 years ago. I also have a second Unraid server used for my business that I've been running for 10+ years. Never any issues on either.
@thompson462011 ай бұрын
I am trying to decide on my system. My buddy and I are doing a multi location lab and are both tech savvy. My needs are speed and 100% reliable and will most likely go for TrueNAS. He is going for the ease and flexibility of unRAID and we will Syncthing between the two to make sure our data is backed up. How can I be certain that my backup is safe on his unRAID setup? If there is no "scrub" feature then how can we be certain that when we need that backup it's safe and there is no bit rot? Any advice would be appreciated!
@iskiiwizz5369 ай бұрын
what did you chose man, I want to create a home lab. Im scared of the type of file use by truenas for the raid. Is it a pain in the ass to add another drive? Do I need to use ecc memory for unraid ? Thanks
@snakeatwar8 ай бұрын
What USB key is it? That's a long time!
@AnthonyNelsonYYZ8 ай бұрын
@@snakeatwar Kingston DT108 4GB. Probably because the UNRaid usb only gets used at boot and OS upgrade. Probably reboot about 5 times a year.
@ckckck126 ай бұрын
Does your unraid also not hit 10gbe? It was strange that the same hardware in unraid could not do more than half. To me that's an issue and maybe central to my use. I was wondering if the reviewer missed an unraid setting. Please advise.
@BrianJurkowski Жыл бұрын
Another benefit UNRAID offers that's lacking in TrueNAS (ZFS) is the ability to mix-and-match drive capacities. I like not having to buy all my drives at once, and when I do buy new drives, I can get whatever capacity I want and add it to the array.
@skyfox77 Жыл бұрын
This is the number ONE reason I chose Unraid, mix all sizes of drives.
@lexatwo11 ай бұрын
That's it. Main UNRAID selling point.
@joemann79719 ай бұрын
@@lexatwo Not necessarily. UNRAID is basically "just a bunch of disks" with parity protection. There is certainly more benefits than just that. For example, because each disk is independent, even if you decided to be a risk taker and not use parity protection, you'll never lose all your data even if you lose a drive. You'll only lose what was on that drive. Parity protection just adds so you dont lose any data. in case of a one or two drives fail, and even if you have 3 drives fail, you'll at most lose 3 drives worth of data. Not all of them (unless all you had was 3 drives. lol)
@cluelessfish9 ай бұрын
@@joemann7971 and this is what i hate with zfs ya dont know what is where !!
@coc19098 ай бұрын
Wrong, TrueNas have the same ability. I have 2T, 3T and 4T disks in my pool(array).
@Kfrankie46 Жыл бұрын
I am team unraid, primarily because of the way it handles different size hard drives and how easy the docker and VM management are, i do also have a truenas scale server though that i use as a backup server that has a copy of all of my data on it because of the file integrity checks that it does
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I like running my docker stuff via unraid as its fast to setup and manage huge amounts of docker containers and I like to test them out and delete them frequently. Portainers new limits make it less appealing and I enjoy the shopping I can do in UnRAID for apps I dont even know I need. 100% on important data hitting truenas however
@dustojnikhummer Жыл бұрын
Yeah hypervisor on Scale is pretty damn barebones. It has integrated Kubernetes, but I have always had issues with it. I do also agree on the "different drive size" but that isn't necessairly fault of TrueNAS, but ZFS. To fix most of that, I went with Proxmox and TrueNAS in a VM and a separate VM for manual Docker. I like knowing that if my NAS died, my data is safe because ZFS will import the pool with no fuss in any other system that supports ZFS.
@denissaamiev5030 Жыл бұрын
Hi. Normally I'm not a video commenter, but I want to mention a few things. At 25:54 we can clearly see that the cache pool was left BTRFS instead of ZFS. Also, another very important topic is that while you make SMB read/write tests on TrueNas your writes are going directly to the ARC (RAM) which is significantly faster than any nvme storage (as you did on Unraid and configured in BTRFS). So, to be fair to Unraid you should fix the things made wrong on Unraid side and redo the tests. (Use ARC on Unraid too as a beginning)
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
There were more than a few mistakes I made here but I am shooting the redo on the ZFS testing part right now and also have put in 40Gbit networking so we should be able to max out the caches and hit real disk perf also.
@anishgeorge8695 Жыл бұрын
Please add the new video related to this in this video description directly. Thanks
@frankniethardt18139 ай бұрын
Also to be as close as you can get to TrueNAS you would have done a ZFS Pool, not Array. Array disks are individual...
@complexity5545 Жыл бұрын
TrueNAS Core for hoarding data. TrueNas SCALE for VMs. I specifically use neither, but If I was a business that did not know how to do command line system administration, then paying TrueNas is the way. I run 1 zfs+freebsd machine on eypc 7702 with bhyve. I run 1 epyc 7702 with debian for VMs. Both use mellanox cards to talk to each other. In this day and age, a business really needs 2 boxes. 1 for dating hoarding and 1 for CPU intensive stuff (specifically for linux). You have good content.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah I think Truenas has a very compelling niche they have created. I use them for my mini data storage hoards management and proxmox for services. Mega cluster proxmox 8 video in the works.
@comp20B Жыл бұрын
I use both since they each have their strong points, which you covered really well. TrueNAS -> Extremely important or data needing high-performance (photos and videos etc) UNRAID -> non-critical data or data not requiring high-performance (plex media files)
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Wow I am seeing that I am not alone in this trend and thats really cool. Can I ask... do you use proxmox at all?
@comp20B Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport I've toyed with proxmox but I don't currently use it. I use unraid for all things docker. And I use Windows Server HYPERV for all my VM's. I also stick with all Dell server hardware.
@AlyredV2 Жыл бұрын
This is what I had set up until recently. I found I was using my TrueNAS Scale less and less, and the complexity of VM and rolling out containers were frustrating enough that I'm currently moving my TrueNAS server to Unraid 6.12.1. Yes, the speed isn't quite as fast (though a lot of that can be mitigated by using fast, large NVME cache drives), but the power saving features are nice as they don't have to keep all the drives running 24/7 due to the array configuration. With the new RaidZ pools, I'll be storing my important data on SSD Cache. Otherwise, for corporate rollouts with huge drive arrays or where I need Kubernetes, TrueNAS Scale is definitely my choice.
@tomatobrush3283 Жыл бұрын
One major benefit to unraid is that the files are stored directly on the disk, so its virtually improbable to lose all your data in a single event. Even if you lose the parity drive, the data is still on all the disks. I've upgraded disk sizes including parity with no hassle and I get top performance from unraid these past 7 years. What put me off truenas was ZFS while a superior file system without a doubt in many regards, for non enterprise setup's where it is heavy on large file data storage, the benefits of unraid outweigh the benefits of ZFS for me. This also makes me sleep easy at night knowing if my unraid breaks completely, I can still plug the drives individually and retrieve all my data in the original folder structure from the disks. My setup is 8gbit HBA to 8 sata disks and a sata cache 512gh cache 500mb/sec. I could add NVME cache no point until I upgrade the network to 2.5gb+. I get about 220mbyte a second when doing a read from the array internally and I get a max 115/120mbyte second over 1gbit wired, through my home pfsense setup.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yes the inability to scale out a datasets without significant costs in truenas is for sure a issue that I am reading is getting close to a solution. TrueNAS is great for my iso files storage.
@BenSollis11 ай бұрын
As someone in the IT arena for some 40 yrs or so.. I think, they're 2 different beasts. TrueNas Scale is for business+ use. The average 'homelabs' guy/gal is not going to be using 50/100 disks etc. On the other hand UnRaid, (my opinion) fits the 'homelabs' user perfectly. For me, with some 30 terabytes of photos, UnRaid is perfect. I can easlily set up shares and I can easily spin up various VMS, and finally a wealth of containers right at my finger tips. They say, Horses for Courses... In this case, unraid for homelabs, truenas for business+
@alice20001 Жыл бұрын
Oh, this is the coolest video I've seen comparing the two. Great to have a look at the hardware.
@francois.h Жыл бұрын
unRAID user here. You could use cache pool to make a true ZFS array and get same performance as TrueNAS or super close. The points of unraid array are the ability to mix and match hard drive capacity, having a single filesystem on each drive which allow you to recover data on healthy hard drive when you loose more hard drive than the number of parity drive, it also mean that each file is on a single hard drive, so reading needs to only spin up that drive, allowing you to reduce power consumption. Unraid and TrueNas are not meant for the same usage.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
There was a followup video that did address this. Its fun to compare but you are right they do have slightly different target audiences and use cases no doubt. More dedicated videos on UnRAID soon. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqCzfYqlosZrrLc
@rwiersema Жыл бұрын
I'm team both, depending on the situation. I use TrueNas to run my family cloud on 2 identical machines in different locations. I run UnRaid for my 'large media files' and VM's/Containers and chuck all my older drives in there.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yes Linux ISO storage is particularly good with UnRaid I find.
@tjb_altf4 Жыл бұрын
Great head to head, but would like to see performance testing redone using real ZFS pools in Unraid... maybe for their next release which has more ZFS features/changes :) #teamunraid
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah I am going to redo the ZFS with unraid pool since my performance comparison was rather off base using the array. I read last night looks like 6.13 will have it as main array supported.
@dankkster Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport maybe... its been a good long while since this has been posited. Ive been waiting on something besides bit-rot filesystems on UnRAID for years now.... ProxMOX and truenas for me and I am an UnRAID user as well.
@joespurlock4628 Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Just use a "dummy" USB drive for the UnRaid array device (and ignore it) -- you can create the ZFS pool(s) in 6.12. Admittedly still will not have all the ZFS "Goodies" til the next release brings those, but the comparison should be approaching apples to apples
@kerryh8er04 Жыл бұрын
I've been pretty happy with TrueNAS. A little more limited, and maybe more complex to learn. But it's been really solid.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah for storage tasks it really does have all the bells you need to get a well tuned ZFS setup going.
@dredge999 Жыл бұрын
Turnon reconstruct write in unraid. Makes a huge difference for writes if this is not default in 6.12
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Im redoing the evaluation with UnRAID zfs in a pool, the proper way. UnRAIDs primary array is FUSE and was not really a fair comparison on my part. Video on that head to head ships this weekend.
@AlNemec Жыл бұрын
I am team unraid. I love the apps and how it handles docker but the biggest reason is that its so much easier to build an array out of a variety of different sized disks and change and add to them throughout the life of your NAS.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
dual parity made UnRAID viable imo for important data and yeah that app store for docker is amazing. Thanks for commenting!
@haydenc2742 Жыл бұрын
Do an Unraid/TrueNAS "IN" PROXMOX virtual with passthru... This way you can have a NAS inside your virtualization hypervisor! Very great video and howto...I use both..well mostly UNRaid...but have both a baremetal TrueNAS Scale and a virtual TrueNAS in PROXMOX on an older machine with a 4x passthru to SSD's... Keep em coming!!!!
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I have ran both virtualized IN proxmox in the past. TrueNAS I am not sure its a good idea to however but UnRAID is A OK running like that. It is probably better with like a V4 Intel XEON vs what I had used for TrueNAS. UnRAID is my fun box. TrueNAS makes me money.
@williamtopping4 ай бұрын
I would advise against TrueNAS in a virtual server with passthrough drives. I cannot speak about UnRaid, that may be different due to the nature of Unraid. There is a good number of stability issues with regards to doing this. Also you can kiss goodbye to certain functionality of TrueNAS (migrating pools, etc) due to fact it's not actually directly connected to the drives. What I'm saying that is if you will be stuck with whatever setup you have with a virtual TrueNAS on that machine. With bare metal TrueNAS you could migrate to a larger/biger machine, or even cluster if you're on bare metal. Of course this might be out of the scope for what you're saying. But even home users will be upgrading the current server machine at some point. It's THEN you realise it's a bad idea.
@musicman00249 күн бұрын
Sounds like Unraid is the right platform for a geginner like me. Thanks for a great video!
@ajslim7911 ай бұрын
Kudos for the used Dark Mode
@Whitefeather008 Жыл бұрын
Just so you know iDRAC 7 supports virtual media. No need to burn a cd or make a usb stick, you can just mount the iso in the web console, you can even set the boot order.
@simplereef485425 күн бұрын
Most home users don't know of that capability.
@DigitalSpaceport25 күн бұрын
Idrac virtual media is slow on 12th gen systems.
@kellycurtis5289 Жыл бұрын
I have an all ssd server and tried unraid and it just kept throwing drive errors and failures randomly. after a week of swapping out drives (all of which were fine) I wiped the server and installed truenas scale. worked perfectly the first install. I thought the setup user interface was quite simple. every drive detected and functions perfectly. a few weeks into the new server and it is fast on a 10gig network.
@HomeSysAdmin Жыл бұрын
I watched the whole thing and, as someone who uses neither, it was very interesting to see the details of both. 1) TrueNAS seems to have a much better user interface while Unraid just looks old/dated. 2) I like that we have solutions that make the setup and management super easy, but I also feel that can be a downside. By using easy point-and-click GUIs you don't gain insight into how the technology works behind the scenes - such as building arrays with mdadm (or zfs), partitioning, configuring Samba for your network shares, managing permissions with ACLs, etc. Perhaps I don't fit the criteria of your typical TrueNAS user, or maybe it's just me being me, not sure. 3) I don't understand why someone would want to run a virtual machine or dockers inside a NAS. It just seems like those two activities should be separate? It's neat that it has Grafana and Plex apps to easily install, but again, point #2 about managing and learning those. 4) Your comment about "what are you doing if you don't care about the data" made me laugh as we each have Petabytes of Chia plots that if we loose them, don't care just replot LOL Love these types of videos! 🙂
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I think you are a CLI junkie. I know one when I see one 😉
@HomeSysAdmin Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Maybe lol, but anything Linux is all command-line at work. I'd be curious how that compares to other medium to large enterprises. Maybe I/we are unique in that regard. I can see TrueNAS being an perfect solution for the typical small business though.
@HomeSysAdmin Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport However, I hate to admit this, but I'm currently reloading my 500+ Bluray catalog to Plex after a mistake that resulted in a loss of my media array LOL. So there are tradeoff's as well.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
@@HomeSysAdmin OMG reripping them? That's a lotta ripping!
@HomeSysAdmin Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Yeah... I have 2 drives now though so it's going much faster than before. Lesson learned - basically the superblock on 2/3 drives got overwritten with a prior GPT table when I changed controllers due to not wiping them properly I guess. Then my recovery attempt destroyed it further 😂 Ooops.
@andyalias8 ай бұрын
Unraid seems more easy beautiful GUI server focused where TrueNAS seems to be more storage function performance focused. I love beautiful easy to use GUI tech, but I chose TrueNAS. Preformance and function is just higher on my list.
@DigitalSpaceport8 ай бұрын
Yeah if your after storage functionality, you can't beat TreNAS on that front imo.
@alexmiller7879 Жыл бұрын
The big thing for me is using mixed drive sizes, and future expansion All things Unraid is great at. I know you can expand using ZFS, but it's a pain in the ass. I use Truenas for daily VM backups. And I love how easy it is to back everything up to your cloud services. In addition to that, it's a lot better at keeping a synced offsite clone as well. I use Unraid for my ever-expanding media library because it's easy to chuck in a new drive, and I am not so worried about losing my media. My conclusion. Unraid for play and expandability. Truenas for anything important, like backups.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah I forgot to mention how awesome that is for UnRAID and it really is a killer feature.
@nathanacreman6322 ай бұрын
Defintely a Truenas scale guy, especially now that they are implementing docker itll have so much more app support. Its definitely a bit of a steep learning curve, but its amazing once it works
@DigitalSpaceport2 ай бұрын
Im very excited for their docker integration!
@electricflixproductions11 ай бұрын
Gotta love 12th Gen Dell servers. I have a couple and they do take their sweet time to boot, kinda annoying when troubleshooting something that requires a lot of rebooting. But I guess that is what makes then very reliable, internal scans, memory validation, and lifecycle controller every time on bootup to make sure everything is stable. Servers are rarely restarted in a production environment so this is an amazing tradeoff!
@DigitalSpaceport9 ай бұрын
I have spent weeks of my life rebooting 12th gen servers at this point. I feel that.
@ikkuranus Жыл бұрын
I have been on Unraid for years. It's not a speed demon but the ease of use, ease of expansion and huge docker library make it all worth it. I only use SSDs for docker services and not to cache incoming files. I have migrated my cache pool from a btrfs mirror to a zfs mirror as btrfs isn't that great.
@johnnybtoso7 ай бұрын
Both, I run both Unraid in my main server and TrueNas on my back-up. You always want to have the backup!
@DigitalSpaceport6 ай бұрын
I'm thinking more and more an UnRaid only slow but super easy to scale up solution for backups of the array is a great option. Now that they support ZFS, hourly snapshots can get you very squared up and safe.
@durtaii250 Жыл бұрын
Gotta say thanks for thus video it tells me I need to run both. Not getting what I want out of just one of them
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I feel the same way exactly
@falklan Жыл бұрын
Wow I was not expecting that statement! I was watching and, I confess, I was about to lose it concerning running VMs on a NAS!
@GeneralAlgren Жыл бұрын
Unraid if you want to do more with virtualization/ dockers. Truenas if you’re more focused on data integrity and file/block performance. I also think truenas is a bit easier to setup. Kinda like an iOS vs Android situation 😅
@fieryscorpion Жыл бұрын
I love iOS, so which one is iOS here? Unraid or TrueNAS?
@skaterpunk0187 Жыл бұрын
Pretty good video, and does show good differences. Though you did say comparing zfs to zfs but that's not really true. The drives in unRAID were formatted to zfs but unRAID really uses shfs (traditional unRAID array). Shfs allows the cache to be used first then moved to the array later. Disk shares can be enabled and the cache drive can be shared. You will get full throughput on a 10GBE writing directly to the cache share. It does require a but more effort. If you want to mover to work correctly the same directory format, I don't recommend this method unless for very advanced users. A true zfs to zfs in unRAID add the drives to a new pool after the drives are added to the pool click the pool options and you'll get the zfs options you want (like Truenas) riadz, raidz2, etc. They both have their uses. I upgraded from dual xeon to and epyc I love all those pci-e lanes.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah I realized after the fact that ZFS was pool only in the current version of Unraid (correction benchmarking video in works) and SHFS while cool does always have that userspace performance hit thats pretty big. Im planning on using the 40gbit nics in the next video so we are not just up against the wall of 10gbit nics 😀 100% agree the name EPYC describes these chips capabilities perfectly.
@germanmosca9 ай бұрын
For me it's soon going to be both. A "small" NAS with 4 drives will run UnRaid. And the "large" one will run TrueNAS with 4 drives, which eventually will be extendet to 16.
@danrsteinmetz Жыл бұрын
Team unraid I've been using it for about 5 years now on the same USB stick no problems upgraded hardware three times it's a breeze when I tried true nas I was very confused by the setup process and I felt it took a lot longer for setup and I was unsure why it took that much longer to do the same steps
@ThereWillBeCake6 ай бұрын
I am also pro reducing eWaste but the main problem is the cost of electricity. Most home lab tech's will want the lostest power consumption as possible which means brand new or very specific hadware options.
@DigitalSpaceport5 ай бұрын
Yeah there is a time to retire gear and head it off to the recycler. The 12th gen Dell stuff has been largely removed, the R920s. I still need to replace the R720XD and R520. The T620 I am torn on. 32 2.5" bays is hard to find in a case that can support this many GPUs.
@TheMongolPrime Жыл бұрын
Team TrueNAS.
@headrushE Жыл бұрын
Great video - this made me pull out my old r520 and fill 'er up lol
@HeathenInfidel4 ай бұрын
I used TrueNAS Scale for about a year before defecting to Unraid. You're right - Unraid wins, but It should also be equal in performance if you fix your pool config. I don't know why you used it whole drive for parity and set the pool to ZFS, which already stripes the parity across the pool! In Unraid 6, use a flash drive as a token array drive (you don't even need that for Unraid 7), then use raid-z1 for single disk or z2 for 2 disk parity and you should be back to full speed.
@mytime34 Жыл бұрын
I just did some testing and found something cool. For my NVME drives, if I set them to BTRFS I only get about 600mb/s, but if I change it to ZFS format I get almost full NVME speeds. I tried this with 1, 2,3 and 4 drives setups and all of them tested great. When testing regular ssd drives, I found the similar results. BTRFS would limit to about 300mb/s, but ZFS was almost maxing out the drives (cache mode) If you decide to rerun your tests, can you try the ZFS format and see if that helps?
@jacobp7289 Жыл бұрын
I got a nvme cache drive in btrfs and get full 10GBe speeds to/from it.
@williammmmmm Жыл бұрын
Team UNRAID here. I consider myself an enthusiast/power user but the simplicity of UNRAID really won me over. TrueNAS really felt overwhelming.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
UnRAID is really a great fun platform that ticks a lot of the boxes for easy, why I own 2 pro licenses myself even.
@dunknow9486 Жыл бұрын
Well done comparison Can you do a video on Proxmox with hdd passthrough for UnRaid?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Oh the kplop UnRaid setup, yeah sure it's pretty cool. Added to whiteboard.
@phonatic Жыл бұрын
Nice video! It's team 🔵for me. Just migrated to TrueNAS CORE from my 10 y/o Synology this month after three weeks of testing. Except for the hard drives and the frame, everything was build from old hardware. Since I only a need a reliable, local storage with native encryption and NFS share, not much beyond that, I could have easily chosen unRAID as well. Although I am currently playing with team red on an older Xeon E3, unRAID's requirement for pre-clearing previously used drives is somewhat getting on my nerves. Expansion flexibility has it's appeal, though.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Its a chicken and egg with preclear. You can skip it, but you better trust those drives! Mix and match HDDs is indeed awesome stuff.
@micmdaaussie11 ай бұрын
One potential use of TrueNAS is that because of FreeBSD underneath is that you can take the NFS file share protocol and translate it into SMB for a Windows client box. Samba on Linux can be a real pain and NFS is the UNIX native file sharing protocol. So, if you have an office network you yake a good old desktop and put TrueNAS on it and line it up. For best results of course you have 2 Ethernet outlets on it so one is the NFS inlet and the other the SMB outlet.
@huntingfighteroramara Жыл бұрын
Team unraid definitely, There's literally one reason I'm split though which is the still missing support of true raid, i know they promised we'll get it but it's the only reason why i sometimes think picking truenas would have been the better call back then, once we get true raid on unraid I'm 100% unraid for sure
@neccros007 Жыл бұрын
I always associated Unraid as a hypervisor with NAS features but TrueNAS as a NAS OS with VM support... Am I wrong?
@UdoHartmann Жыл бұрын
Neither of them, Team Proxmox :) I did some tests with TrueNAS, ans UnRAID, though. 1. TrueNAS can be used free of charge. I'm not aware of an option not to pay for a legally used UnRAID (and you'll have to pay more for more Disks...) 2. UnRAID is able to build Data pools out of a bunch of Disks, where TrueNAS (and Proxmox as well) need Disks of the same size (or at least the pools built with zfs will only use the smallest disk size over all disks used in an array). 3. ZFS has other benefits, especially when it comes to snapshots and remote backup. To get frequent snapshots is a no-brainer with zfs. To get pull replica of your datasets or zvols, is essentially two lines of code (or simply use ready-to-use scripts as for auto-snapshot). It's all about data integrity and to fight against data loss. So, it highly depends on your needs, which one you will chose :)
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yeah snapshots are amazing with ZFS as a result of COW
@RobertnJackieTownley Жыл бұрын
ZFS keeps ChangeBlockTracking that keeps a list of disk blocks that have changed. That means sync can compare list of changed blocks to remote list of CBT to know the blocks to send without actually reading the disk to compare. Much faster even for encrypted drives. ZFS encrypts each block separately so the cbt list is the same. Just wish xcp-ng and XEN api took advantage of that.
@RiffyDevine Жыл бұрын
Just a question but that server as you have it setup if just sat in a rack by itself, how loud would you say it is just doing normal NAS tasks?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
The R520 can be IPMI tuned to adjust fan speeds to whatever you want, so it can be very quiet. I had an R720 in a rack in a closet in a work studio about 10 ft from me and had the fans set to 20% static. Was barely audible. The loadout with cards, ram, cpu will dictate what is a safe level to run the fans at.
@peteratkin3788 Жыл бұрын
FYI, redundant PSU's are not for blowout, but for power redundancy, e.g. when you have a power source failure, meant for server rooms where you have at least two separate power sources.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
In my little lab I have had 2 PSUs fail since I have been running servers which is around 2013. Been glad I had redundant PSUs both times, just sayin.
@RollerCoasterLineProductions Жыл бұрын
I use both. I built a new NAS with a fractal R5, 2) 8 tb ironwolf, Intel 11700, azrock H570 w 32 gig of ram to run unraid, which I ended up purchasing. I run true nas scale on an old machine, which I can’t get any apps to work, much less virtual machines. I’ve come a long way. I started out running OMV on a pi 4, and starting tinkering with old pcs and proxmox. I love the ease of unraid, and don’t like the clunkiness of scales interface. True nas is a backup for my data
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I think this is a very sound approach.
@RollerCoasterLineProductions Жыл бұрын
So I upgraded my license for up to 12 drives, crammed all those old drives into the fractal case, and used those as unassigned drives and passed them thru on a machine running OMV. It works well
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
@@RollerCoasterLineProductions I have never tried OMV. Seems like a fun platform.
@jimmyTimtam Жыл бұрын
I've used both, Unraid i would say is the better system but TrueNAS is also good.
@chrisclower68511 ай бұрын
I have to say, as crazy as this NAS is that you're showing at 2:00, it just has this REALLY antiquated look and feel for some reason. Maybe that's just how all cutting-edge stuff starts, but this is the first time I'm seeing something that looks like it came from the 1980s or 90s as a modern setup in 2024. The GIANT motherboard, the massive capacitors, the dozens of PCBs plugged in, it's so nostalgic even though it's new(ish) stuff.
@DigitalSpaceport11 ай бұрын
Well its 11 year old server so yeah it does and should look old, it is indeed old. The things you are seeing that look massive however do look the same in more modern server guts as well, they are needed to ensure you have a high performance system that doesn't fail in 24/7 operations in a datacenter. The exterior of the R520 is what I think looks the oldest myself. Its all getting updates to newer servers this year though so hopefully can get some more stylish external appearance.
@user1412-n8v11 ай бұрын
i'm start to learning about home server and willing to make one. if the system disk that contain OS broken, when i reinstall unraid, can it read my drive content like if we reinstall windows? or the mainboard broken after replace new one, i wonder if we need reinstall unraid or not?
@williamtopping4 ай бұрын
Short Answer is No, Long Answer is Yes: If you're competent in CLI, and vigilant in backing up all the databases and configuration files (including the ones you didn't know you should be backing up). AND you have configured this correctly from the get go. Even then, no matter who you are, it's trivial to overlook something along the way. And searching forum comments on how to do this will give you differing answers. The only way you can be sure is you undertake a disaster recovery the first time you set it up. Documenting EVERY SINGLE STEP you took. If it works, congratulations, you can walk into any datacenter with A-Level skills, because if you can do all that, you will most certainly have them.
@wiedapp Жыл бұрын
Even though it's not the core part of the video, it does show that in some regions of the world energy prices are an afterthought, if at all...
@AtanasPaunoff Жыл бұрын
FreeNAS user for many years and I am using TrueNAS Core now... Didn't get a reason to migrate to TreNAS Scale which you tried in the video.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I dont think there is a reason to migrate. I was installing new and scale seems like it gets a lot of their focus now. I also like that as a more standard debian base I am likely to get better support for any cards I want to add in.
@chrishorton444 Жыл бұрын
Scale allows gpu pass through, which core doesn’t. Truecharts makes adding apps much easier than creating jails on core.
@odedia7 ай бұрын
I wonder if trying to install the virtual machines and/or docker apps with the 1M block size was the source of the issues? Ideally you'd want to have the apps and virtual machines on a separate vdev, preferably using SSDs.
@vstockwell8 ай бұрын
Team Orange with Custom Ubuntu build out - all Cli no gui baby. ZFS, Docker, Plex, and all the trimmings.
@mrdriver5113 ай бұрын
I have tried both Truenas and Unraid and kept Unraid I wanted to have Plex with HW transcoding and just couldn’t get it to work on Truenas while on Unraid i just unstalled the Nvidia driver and Plex container following the guid on the forum to set it all up and it works. For me Truenas was to complicated for what i needed it to do what i like was the user permissions
@darthkielbasa Жыл бұрын
I prefer Unraid. I’ve used Truenas Scale and it’s a great OS. However, being a recent convert to nerding, Unraid is more intuitive in my opinion. Also, GPU passthrough to VMs and Docker is simple enough for a knucklehead like me. Thanks for the content.
@gamerjorts Жыл бұрын
I built my home server in 2020 so I could work from home during "the plague". The 1 thing that it all boiled down to in the end, was that TrueNAS simply didn't support the NIC on any of my existing motherboards (my former gaming PCs) and Unraid did. Fast forward to 2023 and I'm running 2 Unraid boxes at home, one for work, one for play.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
UnRAID does a great job with compatibility considering its a slackware port!
@TheMrDrMs Жыл бұрын
Truenas. Scale really made me happy as I was a FreeNAS user up until Scale. Dedicated NX3230 for my storage needs. I'm a sys engineer and deal with enterprise storage daily, this is more ideal for me especially as I use an R630 and R740 for my home(lab) application needs. If I was newer/combining down to one box for everything, unraid would be the winner.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
mmmmmm R740 damn those are sweet
@layol692k7 Жыл бұрын
really i am fantastic video I def enjoyed it. But for me I am going unraid for a smaller home server for storage because of ease of use
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
It's a very fun storage OS, your going to enjoy it!
@BrentLeVasseurАй бұрын
Is TueNAS/ZFS only good for a hard drive based NAS? Whats the best for an NVME SSD based NAS that’s like ZFS that doesn’t have bit rot? I need a NAS that can saturate a 100Gbit fiber connection, and is totally fan less and dead silent. (That means no spinning platter hard drives)
@DigitalSpaceportАй бұрын
The NIC for 100GbE will without doubt require active cooling is something to consider. No you can absolutely use ZFS for insane performance all flash setups also. Have done that myself in the past on a small desktop machine and it was impressive. The real "ah ha" moment is when you realize you can get insane performance for most usage patters with smart use of special devices that are flash based in combo with rust, to achieve a very large storage pool at a fraction of the cost.
@temp50 Жыл бұрын
All I can see in Unraid's app list is security holes. Sorry to say that but if something is "easy to set up" or "fancy" usually means a security problem as well.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I'm genuinely curious to learn more. Which apps are security holes?
@Tecnoc2211 ай бұрын
I would strongly disagree for most users. Software that is easy to set up and keep updated is ideal. If they have to do some complicated setup they are probably going to follow some guide to maybe get it running, and then never touch it again or update it because it is working.
@DigitalSpaceport11 ай бұрын
Yeah this person didn't come back and list even a single "security hole" app, let alone a list. UnRaid is very good for end users looking to have a simple setup that's easy to maintain.
@eddiegomez4134 Жыл бұрын
What do you recommend for a video editing NAS? Getting a cpu/mobo combo for cheap AMD Ryzen 7 3700X TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) Also, want to start with only 3 12TB drives and slowly add more.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
For a video editing NAS, You want some fast cache drives and fast networking if you plan to edit remote off the machine. If you plan to just cold storage the files on the NAS that is easier as you can simply move them at whatever speed. If you plan to edit off the NAS, I would use TrueNAS for this and setup a raid mirror of 2 drives and have the third as a hot spare. If it is just a storage repo, UnRAID will allow for a more flexible array growth that is easy to expand with any disk size provided it is under the parity disk size.
@eddiegomez4134 Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Yea probably won't edit directly on it; Just use it to store footage.
@chrishorton444 Жыл бұрын
Team Truenas I have close to 300 drives between one scale and one core servers.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
252 drives here on a single scale. Runs great and doesnt need attention often.
@wildmanjeff423 ай бұрын
Definitely need ECC ram on storage servers. Thanks for the video, just found your channel, will be going back through your videos !
@DigitalSpaceport3 ай бұрын
Welcome!
@basdfgwe Жыл бұрын
I dont know why but I don't know why you would want to run applications/vms on your nas. I'd like to keep the nas seperated from my other servers that run the applications (understanding that some may not be able to afford the price of having multiple machines). I do wish you placed more importance on array setups.
@josephp15925 ай бұрын
One OS you will find in enterprise environments, one you will only find on half ass home setups. Wonder which one is better
@DigitalSpaceport5 ай бұрын
flips coin.... openmediavault lol. No in all seriousness TrueNAS will be killer once they get a user friendly and functional docker implementation. Their app store is what makes unraid imo a fun to use piece of software for non serious data storage tasks, but the new price structure I dont think is good for users.
@josephp15925 ай бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport I can see that. Currently running docker and portainer with jailmaker
@TimRex.Ай бұрын
"I always use proxmox and usually use something like ZFS or TrueNAS as the storage backend" I'm curious about the practicality of using TrueNAS as the storage backend for Proxmox, presume you're exposing a volume via NFS? How is performance for guest hosts with a storage setup like that, compared to local storage?
@DigitalSpaceportАй бұрын
NFS does work and is performant however ZFS over iSCSI is block level and what I am referring to. I have a Truenas refresh video on deck, I will include this topic. Much lower latency that route vs NFS. Also I use very high performance networking which does translate into tangible benefits in this scenario that make it very beneficial for OS storage especially. If you are just doing like 1GbE or CAT based, you may be cool with just doing NFS.
@TimRex.Ай бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Nice, started looking into this and can see the benefits. I have a Proxmox test rig running on a mini-PC that wouldn't see benefit on 2.5GbE but for sure 10gig would be there the money is.. Looking at Mikrotik switch offerings right now in fact
@forhobby Жыл бұрын
allways free open sources is better
@billc.riemers32457 ай бұрын
I'm not really interested in a parity solution. That means if a disk fails, your array is down until the array can be rebuilt. But TOS 5 has RAID T. And Btrfs has a modified Raid 1 solution that can mirror different sized drives. I don't know how RAID T works, but the BTRFS system works simply by making sure each and every file exists on at least two devices. So no matter which device goes off line, you still have your data in your live running system. TrueNAS does not support anything quite like this. Does Unraid support something similar? For my immediate needs I have an F4-423 arriving today. I am still trying to decide how to populate it. I have a mixture of 8TB and 17 TB drives available. I need at least 20 TB of disk space available. And I will have a 1 TB nvme I can use for caching, or storing items like the plex database that really benefit from read/write speeds. My primary initial case is just simple file shares, and plex. But that may change quickly as I begin to take advantage of other things the hardware can do.
@jeffreyrh8 ай бұрын
Does TrueNAS have anything similar to UNRAID's Unattached Devices app. Or in other words, can you 'mount' an SMB remote share within TrueNAS like you can with UNRAIDs Unattached Devices?
@DigitalSpaceport8 ай бұрын
I have not seen that in the GUI, but have not looked for it. You could do it from the CLI but that's not ideal for most folks. I'll check for upcoming video on it.
@moebius2k103 Жыл бұрын
You didn't change the cache drive to ZFS, it formatted as BTRFS. That's why you didn't get the benefit of RAM cache. It was just writing to the SSD at its native speed. The array was formatted as ZFS but that is the secondary location which only matters when the mover task is invoked.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
yeah I did address that in the second video, but there were additional points that need to be cleared up folks have pointed me to so there will be a dedicated UnRAID video on all this soonish.
@WhatAboutRC Жыл бұрын
Does the R730 have the internal USB port you can use for unraid like the R710 im using?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
yes
@dpnmodi10 ай бұрын
it of a newbie question: How do you manage to use your browser to see the screen on the server you're setting up on, e.g. when you're looking at the boot screen of the server from your browser, how does that setup work?
@DigitalSpaceport9 ай бұрын
iDrac, which is a BMC device for server class dell hardware. Some other makers have this as well, but it usually starts in workstation class gear and in servers.
@DickyBenfield4 ай бұрын
@DigitalSpaceport I would love to see a revisit of the zfs comparison once Unraid 7 is released.
@DigitalSpaceport4 ай бұрын
Okay. That sounds cool
@MaheshSapaliga Жыл бұрын
Quick question - So say I set up a server with Unraid with 1 SSD 60Gb for OS, 3 Hdd (1 TB each) as Data and one 4tb HDD as Parity. Can I add More HDDs later say after a month or so with Data already copied on the previous drives.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yes unraid is VERY flexible about adding additional drives to the array. The drives do not have the be the same size and they can be added in 1 at a time as well. You do pay per # of drives connected to the system so consolidating down to as few drives as possible is a good idea. The 1 catch is that they cannot be larger then the current parity drive, but you can upgrade your parity size at any time.
@teamSuey3 ай бұрын
what was the model of the 10gb card you used? i have truenas and trying to find a working 10gb card thats compatible. tried a few and they dont even show up in OS or shell.
@DigitalSpaceport3 ай бұрын
@@teamSuey mellanox CX-2 but its been a while since I tested one against truenas. If you want to wait an hr ill plug in mine and make sure TN still supports them. It should but sometimes older card support gets dropped.
@teamSuey3 ай бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport i have truenas core 13.0 let me know!!! I dont wanna order 4 or 5. Also if what sfp or dacs are used!
@DigitalSpaceport3 ай бұрын
Ah crap I run scale now that they are planning to ditch core. Now it makes more sense also, bsd driver support is hit/miss. I dont have a core install to test against, sry. IMO the CX-2 is very likely to work but no way to validate for you. Sry.
@teamSuey3 ай бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport i have the arrs and other things setup. Not sure how the upgrade would be. Would i loose any data? I have little over 50tb used.
@DigitalSpaceport3 ай бұрын
@@teamSuey are you running your arrr stack directly off the TN core host? The ZFS datastore is perfectly safe itself to reattach to a scale machine (or any other host for that matter)
@kenyakking Жыл бұрын
If both use ZFS, why is truenas more reliable for data?🤔 Also wish you covered reliability...e.g. if you have two truenas or unraid servers clustered and one goes down, will your services and data survive?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
When looking at the main array in Unraid, they have their own parity calculation thing they are doing. I didnt use the pools ZFS which I should have done in hindsight to get a more accurate picture of the situation. On first glance however creating sets of mirrors looks to be the extent of the layout possibilities for Unraids ZFS implimentation. You have a much wider amount of configurations available with Truenas/bare metal that would allow for ridiculous levels of security with your data in more pure ZFS arrangements. While those would be wasteful to a homelabber, businesses or professionals may need to go that route. Cluster Unraid and Truenas is not something I have tried, as I use proxmox for my main services and it has very good built in clustering. There will be a lot more on high availability, backups, and failover in the next few weeks on this channel so stay tuned.
@kenyakking Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport their 2 drive parity sounded like zraid2? (Aka loss of two drives is ok) ZFS definitely has more support but seems like it's enough for most prosumer cases...the big speed difference is concerning though. Looking forward to more HA testing.
@SV-lw8jo Жыл бұрын
I am team TrueNAS because I only need a data storage system and it is free.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Super solid reasoning and a great product for data storage backends indeed
@terranceoliver8935 Жыл бұрын
I'm team unraid. While it has been a huge learning curve coming from RPI to a full scale setup, I am a gamer first ,data horder 2nd. the use of VMS with windows gaming was a huge seller for me
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
UnRAID is super slick imo and they make so easy, they are doing it right for sure. What did you run as the RPI OS?
@basdfgwe Жыл бұрын
You run a Windows in a VM for your gaming ? Do you play AAA titles, what's teh performance ?
@MorganTN Жыл бұрын
Ive been playing with the big 3. unRAID, ProxMox, and TrueNAS. Honestly I see more value and punch in the unRAID for a home lab person who is looking for one box to manage most of what they want running all the time.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
If I was going to an island and could pick only 1. Yeah.
@SheLeftMeUnsupervised Жыл бұрын
Team Unraid. I can actually use it. I can't seem to wrap my head around Truenas. Unraid fills all my needs. I have tried and continue to try to learn Truenas but they really need to work on ease of use. Unraid is super easy. I get Truenas is more corporate type NAS but.. Not all of us are "It" team memebers. I am just a home user. OMV works well too. There are others that work. As far as my opinion to which is better?? The one you can use and are comfortable with that fills your needs. Neither one will do any good if you can't use it.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
This is probably one of the most important metrics. What you like using. It is interesting the user interfaces are drastically different for each. I do like the speed of checkbox and multiselect you get with Truenas for disk selection, maybe we get that some day with unraid.
@SheLeftMeUnsupervised Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport I think the disk selection is because Unraid isn't raid where as Truenas is. They just work different.
@technerd9655 Жыл бұрын
Watching this, and my experience with Unraid is the total opposite, I can't wrap my head around it, managing the storage arrays is totally confusing, needing to install apps just to browse the storage from the webui is totally insane to me (not sure if this is the case with TrueNAS also). I find Unraid not user friendly at all!
@lyth1um Жыл бұрын
did u ever archived the smb speed with your 40gbit connection? what does iperf saying about it.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
No and Yes. No in the sense that single stream with iperf2 I capped out around 25gbit but if I ran multiple streams it could crest 30-32gbit but never held. Work is still ongoing around this, I had a 2 hop solution on the 40gbit bridge that may have been tanking some performance and removing the ICX6610 is a non-trivial task as it was my core switch.
@lyth1um Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport hmm reminds that the pcie link speed isnt fast enough, cant remember your old server yet. but pcie 3.0 4x is to slow for 40gbits ofc.
@tfarchive1 Жыл бұрын
Fyi, you are not really using zfs with unraid unless you create a zpool in pools. You cannot create a zfs array in the main data array. You are using the disks with zfs format but not a fair comparison to truenas
@OutsiderDreams Жыл бұрын
I was going to say the day thing. Create a pool and use the spinning rusty drives in that pool instead of the main array. @spaceinvader one has a great video on how to set up zfs on a pool.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Very good points and picking a winner on this category was by far the hardest as I mentioned. Truenas has an amazing ZFS offering which I personally use and enjoy its feature richness. As I mentioned in the video it was my first time setting up the unraid solution for ZFS and I should have just stuck with it being the typical setup for unraid in comparison and precluded the ZFS aspect entirely. That feels like a much deeper topic than a high level overview video should get into. Their solution is indeed not feature rich in the pool settings to a surprising degree. While I do stand by unraid being easier to setup overall, I would switch this to point truenas based on lack of features in ZFS pools setup on unraid in a ZFS to ZFS direct comparison.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed I think there will be a direct ZFS to ZFS comparison video on this topic after I spend some time testing Unraid out more in their pool setup. I also need to switch to the 40Gbit nics to give a proper test that is not limited. I am not seeing several options in the unraid zfs pools configuration and I am heading over to catchup with the ZFS tutorial from @SpaceinvaderOne right now
@ryanmalone26816 ай бұрын
I have both, each running ~150TB of storage. TrueNAS can’t be beat for NAS-only. Shove in 1 TB RAM, get yourself a fast card and switch and forget about it. It’s fast and stable. What else could be more important? What I like about Unraid is that if you lose both parity drives, and then you lose another drive, you only lose that one drive. Same scenario in TrueNAS and you’d lose the array. Container and App Store is good. Things I don’t like, speed and stability primarily, which is kinda poor for a NAS. I’ve found that what’s better than Unraid OR TrueNAS, is an Unraid backup server with a primary NAS as TruNAS inside a VM in Proxmox, only used as a NAS, with VM’s and containers in Proxmox, using TrueNAS as an iSCSI target for fast storage outside of the Proxmox node,and as part of a cluster.
@techtechuw597 Жыл бұрын
In addition what others have adviced, the transfer is perhaps more cpu bottlenecked in Unraid. Try to copy several files in paralllel and see what you get in combined. On my Epyc system with 10GB network I am getting a full GBps upload to server and about 550-600MBps download to my local system. I have not researched why downloads are slower, since I am satisfied with my results.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
If the files have been moved off to array vs cache, that could slow things down. I dont think UnRAID does adaptive read ahead caching
@philosoaper Жыл бұрын
did you pick an ISO for the VM? did not look like it..... after less than 3 months in "nuxworld.. While this is my first "homelab" of any kind.. I tend to jump into the deep end.. so I'll stick to TrueNas I think...
@n1kt4r11 ай бұрын
Which array is better to create for 4 disks of different sizes (1.5tb, 2tb, 3tb, 6tb)?
@DigitalSpaceport11 ай бұрын
UnRaid has its own way of handling drives in an array and setting u your 6TB as parity and the rest as data drives would yield the most effective space and provides a lot of future scalability at very low cost
@Murr808 Жыл бұрын
dude can't believe you trolled me and mentioned proxmox at the end lol
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
proxmox 8 videos soon!
@snagardev Жыл бұрын
What about upgradability. How safe is it to upgrade Unraid vs TrueNas ?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Unraid is click install and done level simple for upgrades. TrueNAS I have not upgraded as I have production machines running 24/7 for it that cant have downtime. I am unsure on TrueNAS
@arubial1229 Жыл бұрын
Bottom line, Unraid is the best home NAS solution, and it’s not even close. However, if data integrity and super fast performance are the only things you want, then TrueNAS is the answer. Unraid’s superior Docker implementation can’t be ignored though, and their recent ZFS integration makes Unraid the obvious choice for home NAS users.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
Im not sold their ZFS is on par with TrueNAS still. There is another video for sure on just UnRAID soonish and if I had to choose just 1, yeah probably UnRAID.
@arubial1229 Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport TrueNAS is definitely the choice if you want ZFS, but it’s nice that they have added ZFS to Unraid. I honestly couldn’t imagine not using Unraid for my home NAS.
@SebastianMBraun Жыл бұрын
Wo do you touch the pins in 2:40? 😳🤯
@jesper1010 Жыл бұрын
Did you really set up a ZFS pool on Unraid? To me it looked like that was a parity protected array pool and that you just wrote to your Optane drive since that was set for caching your pool?
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
I did in this one indeed setup ZFS in the array, which is not correct. However I did a follow-up on a storage pool ZFS unraid setup here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqCzfYqlosZrrLc
@jesper1010 Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport Thanks for doing that updated video. Very interesting results you get. Hopefully it's just that ZFS is new in Unraid, and this will be fixed in the future. As a personal reflection maybe I should just stay away from it anyway, since I don't have ECC in my Unraid server.
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
@@jesper1010 If you have no ECC, I would not use it with any important data. Movies and less permanent data sure, but nothing important. That is pretty much my use case for UnRAID already, fun stuff. Nothing on there is irreplaceable and I dont even backup the movies and stuff I have on there. I have the discs if I needed to rerip them.
@patrickprafke4894 Жыл бұрын
If you know how to trick it. A Samsung 950 pro has built in bios firmware it gives your motherboard bios for "generic nvme drivers" to boot from. It's why I stil own 6 of them.
@T313COmun1s7 Жыл бұрын
Team Blue - TrueNAS, because a NAS should be a NAS, and not ProxMox. I have a machine for ProxMox already. I have VMs and LXC containers natively, and a VM running Portainer for Docker and Pods. It make zero sense to give up 50% of your NAS performance to tack on a function that should be on it's own box anyhow.
@ryoohk Жыл бұрын
I'm going through the process of trying to figure out what i want to do, Keep TrueNAS or go Unraid. what started this process is i have a 8 drive chasse with only 4 drives in it and i found out with my ZFS pool i cant add 1 drive and expand it, ill have to do 4 more drives and create a new pool and merge the pools, i really dont want to do that process and no i cant nuke my pool and recreate it because i dont have any were to store that data. So i was told with Unraid i can keep adding disk and it will auto expand the array, but my question is if i make it ZFS in Unraid can i expand it or will in be in the same boat as TrueNas, or do i need to not use ZFS and use a different file type.
@chomp7927 Жыл бұрын
if you go ZFS the right way in UNRAID you have the same limitations when it comes to adding drives I believe. The adding random drive features only works with the UNRAID array, for ZFS to work properly you need to make a ZFS pool
@jdaniels6830 Жыл бұрын
Is seems that it would be best to use both trunas as nas only unraid for the server apps
@MrThereal1 Жыл бұрын
Team Unraid running inside of Proxmox!! Best of both worlds! #teamunraid
@DigitalSpaceport Жыл бұрын
UnRAID runs great inside Proxmox! There will be a surprise VM when I do my Proxmox tour video 😃
@MrThereal1 Жыл бұрын
@@DigitalSpaceport The only issue I have with Unraid inside of proxmox is that my SSD pool that is ZFS gets stolen by proxmox even with the HBA passed through to Unraid. Looking forward to that video!