FreeNAS vs. Unraid: GRUDGE MATCH!

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[@gotscroogled]

Cool. Nice overview of options for when I eventually get around to setting up a home server again.

[@bonamin]

I don't really know VERY much about these setups, but I'm using UNRAID, and one thing that got me there, is the ability to add drives, whenever I need more space. I am using it as a Home Media Server, and Storage Solution. I also run dockers like Emby, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, even my Ubiquiti UniFi OS and more. I'm loving this A LOT. Not being able to pay up front for all the space I might need in the future UNRAID seemed like a good solution. I even started this on a SoC E350 motherboard I had laying around, with 2GBs of RAM and a single HDD. Without ever needing to start again, I've upgraded my server with stuff like a Supermicro Motherboard, Xeon CPU, ECC RAM, and a lot more drives, cache SSDs etc. Unraid is like hardware agnostic which I LOVE. PS. For a guy that has never done anything like this, I can tell you, it's easy enough for anyone to get started.

[@bonamin]

@@n0ex I've heard that some other setups, can be a lot faster, but hey, you can't have EVERYTHING ! :D In MY specific case, Unraid is almost EXACTLY what I need !!!

[@WinterCharmVT]

I was actually building a NAS storage server *right now* and was wondering this. Your video is going to be what I base my decision on. Thank you! :)

[@MartinPaoloni]

I knew Level1Techs had done a video about this! Thanks. I'm building a NAS right now and I'm torn between unRAID and FreeNAS. I'm going for consumer-grade hardware so I'm leaning towards unRAID. Because of this, and because the FreeNAS forum seems to be more "RTFM, your hardware sucks", and less "let me help you".

[@j.b.2561]

Thanks for your high-quality content Wendell. I really enjoy watching your videos, they're always very informative and interesting.

[@nathantron]

I feel like I am leaving with more questions than I entered....

[@tomatobrush3283]

This FreeNAS vs Unraid is a rabbit hole debate. They are both good solutions they are just different solutions. For my home setup I went with unraid even though I know on paper ZFS is superior.

[@nonegiven2830]

welcome to the world of storage ;)

[@_BangDroid_]

@Simon TV what filesystem did you go with unraid? XFS, BTRFS?

[@freefalling2earth]

Simon TV but in the video. Didn’t he say you can do ZFS on unRAID and that’s what he did for Gaming Nexus? I’m confused. Talks too fast and mumbles for a noob. Isn’t it freeNAS vs unRAID and not XFS vs unRAID because they can be done on both? And does XFS on unRAID make use of ECC. He didn’t mention that. Headaches.

[@purduephotog]

I ... missed the whole grudge match part. Where's the failure analysis...

[@LittleT2]

Hey, glad you guys got a sponsor spot. You are the best tech channel on the web.

[@1armbiker]

Sponsors are great, but I don’t get why companies are still advertising LGA115x stuff.

[@JosephArata]

@@1armbiker Because that's all Intel has right now on 14nm+++++++++++

[@linkdude64]

It's seriously one of the most underrated - this channel is just like Linux, it's highly competent, but for some reason not as popular as it ought to be. Wendell is definitely helping change that, though. Real ambassador for good software. Would be nice if he was more of a proponent of Libre software, though. Looking at it more in depth, etc.

[@MrBiky]

@@linkdude64 Wendell worked or works in the Enterprise, so it's no wonder he is ok with both proprietary and free software, as he probably had to use both. And he is pushing for free software a lot, but sometimes, free software is just not there yet, like it's the case for ESXi. Just look at some of Wendell's video about Synology NAS and how easy it is to integrate with VMWare. Just get the plugin and poof, done, basically. VMWare still has the most support and the most easy to find tech guys that know how to use it. I also doubt it won't be easy to learn. There are a lot of competing solutions, I think Proxmox is the closest to VMWare, but it's "janky" compared to VMWare, because you need to do things manually. I do prefer the manual stuff for the most part. Another thing is vCloud, to which there are competing solutions, like OpenNebula and OpenStack. I didn't use OpenStack, but I heard it is a big mess and beside the need to read a lot of documentation, it's also pretty buggy, so you're better off buying a vendor solution of OpenStack to solve some of the bugginess, but then you get into proprietary stuff and vendor lock-in. OpenNebula is pretty neat, but I had a lot of bugs with it, to the point I migrated 7 hosts one by one to Proxmox, with more than 200 VMs.

[@freefalling2earth]

Biky why not share how you did that migration on KZbin a forum or a blog? It would be interesting insight for those who want to learn. I’m sure it would get enough views.

[@jamesprine8565]

Awesome patreon just joined yesterday. Already loving it. Thanks for the helpful videos 👍

[@the_wau_]

Same here! Thanks Wendell, and everyone else at Level1.

[@loadshooter83]

Great video man! You are the first channel I've found on youtube that actually breaks this stuff down into layman's terms. Keep making these videos please!

[@DanCalloway]

Best of the best! Keep up the great work, guys. I've subscribed. Wish I had found you much earlier. BTW, Shadow Copy is available in Windows 10 Pro. To use this feature, go to Services, then scroll down to Volume Shadow Copy and change the Startup from Disabled to Automatic or Manual. I chose Automatic. The service starts and you're good to go.

[@binjuiceconnoisseur]

1:15 Did you see that ludicrous display last night? Does the summoning work with Itanium CPUs? I have a few of those laying around.

[@HOkayson]

Thing about Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in.

[@_BangDroid_]

Love that reference, I'm gonna watch it when I go to bed

[@randallsmith2521]

Thanks for this video. It was essentially a summary of what I already knew about the two products, but to hear it from you guys rather than a blog somewhere really gives it a bit more credence. Now I just have to decide if I'm going to do FreeNAS or Unraid...

[@HellTriX]

I was unable to decide this myself. So I am attempting to roll my own using Ubuntu 19.10 with the ZFS based install. So far I have everything up and running with dockers. So far so good.

[@randallsmith2521]

@@HellTriX basically I'm down to whether I want to be able to add drives at random or not. I plan to have backup, so while data integrity is important, I will be set in case something happens.

[@johnnybegood8049]

I was waiting for that! Thank you!

[@lazerusmfh]

Freenas: A storage software for those who want a career learning how to use freenas Unraid: the system you end up buying and liking after you wasted weeks trying to figure out why freenas broke and you couldn’t fix it.

[@krisiscove]

Lol I have enjoyed my time learning BSD to keep my freenas system running haha.

[@Mr.Leeroy]

the thing wont't work if you are not willing to make effort to configure it. ofc it will eventually fail. Especially true in case of ZFS, which is unforgiving enterprise-level difficulty file system.

[@lazerusmfh]

Leeroy my point is the people who use this for home use shouldn’t waste their time with freenas. It breaks and you’re spending hours in the forums trying to figure out what file you need to edit, or what file you need to patch to fix the problem. I’m other words, unless you have extensive Linux knowledge and/or time, and need maximum disk performance, unraid is way better. I have three 40+ TB unraid installations (one home and one at my office) and they’re all together less headache than the one freenas one I have, especially when a drive fails. Also, Try GPU Passthrough on freenas :)

[@krisiscove]

@@lazerusmfh I mean everyone's experience is different. My freenas setup has been running great for the past 4 years now. It is "joined" to my domain, LDAP is working well. The shares I have are assigned to groups within my AD domain so permissions are a breeze. I have gone through a raidz expansion (just replaces all my drives with bigger ones and expanding the pool) that was fairly painless. I have 4 jails running 2 vm's and a docker contrainer running. I have a 10Gbe NIC and my drivers are fast enough to saturate it. I haven't needed GPU passthrough so I can't speak on that.

[@ertpecsertpecs]

I didn't think freenas was hard to get up and running. I've been running it for probably 8 or 9 years now. I never took any it classes or anything besides pascal in the 90s. I just know how to read

[@paulbowman4448]

Thanks for the Video, Your explanations and reasoning for choices are valuable to help me choose which to use for what purpose. Keep up the great work! Video series that show the step by step process of your guides for creating these vm/dockers/jails for the noobs among your community. There are not a lot of video guide that are up to date how-to's on KZbin, so great opportunity for the channel to create content for the inexperienced Home lab community members. I look forward to more Videos Along this subject matter. Great content keep it up!

[@DrDingus]

Great comparison! I'd love to see you do a more in-depth review/comparison with proxmox as well. I'm in a situation where I already have a low power i3 unraid NAS that I've been using for a couple of years. I recently built a rackmount dual xeon server with 12 hotswap bays and bought 6 x 500GB SSDs. I'm not sure if I should consolidate the unraid nas into the new, more powerful server, or just keep these things separate. I do like running dockers, but I also need to spin up VMs often.

[@93Snips]

Enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@awesomearizona-dino]

EXACTLY the video i was hoping for. Thanks Wendell.

[@danielyount9812]

Was unaware of Unraid will have to check it out. Really good overview of many of the Nas VM distros.

[@DavidE95959]

It would be really nice if you could do a video/guide on what in your opinion is the best homeserver setup based on ease of use, performance and maintenance

[@DarioCruzII]

This video helped me out so damn much. Thanks man.

[@user-xd3gk2tw3n]

Awesome video keep up the good work, you are definitely spot-on with all your details,

[@chorleyprint3813]

Hey. I’ve been watching your videos with interest as we are about to replace our current Dell server as we are running out of space (our current server is a T320 with only space for 4 hard drives). I see you use freenas quite a bit so I wondered whether you would recommend freenas over Windows Server (we are currently using Windows Server 2016 std) for a file server and if so, why?

[@kouji71]

After I saw your and Steve's video I swapped from ZFS + Ubuntu desktop to ZFS + Unraid. I'm really happy with it. Thanks!

[@HellTriX]

If my Ubuntu + zfs doesn't work out for some reason. I will swap to Unraid + zfs myself. :)

[@JohnDoe-gs1cb]

@@HellTriX it's working?

[@HellTriX]

@@JohnDoe-gs1cb Yeah, It's not super simple as I have to compile and build zfs for linux on ubuntu 20.10 using the source. But, I have zfs up and running for my needs.

[@ZWill07]

“Schizophrenic moose on roller blades” lmao

[@Maxjoker98]

"... as far as I could throw Steve Ballmer" - I wonder if he rolls...

[@NaumRusomarov]

.... the head definitely does.

[@draven4464]

Steve Balmer: *Snorts 20 lines* *punches hole in wall* "I LOVE THIS COMPANY YEAH" *proceeds to blackout on stage*

[@daniz8578]

i make freenas vm on unraid, then passthrough the hdds to make pool on freenas vm. can i do that?

[@nickiebanchou]

l1tech: FREENAS VS UNRAID! me: OMV!

[@gravypod]

Have you tried Ceph as a storage backend? A lot of enterprise things I've looked at recently have been using that as a distributed block store and file system.

[@akistr2883]

Nice vid Wendell , zfs (and butter-fs) is the future. I wonder if the GN build could be done by setting up an ubuntu T1hypervisor server with zfs , and just be done with it.

[@mjc0961]

"Oh it's the home team, look at the sportsball go!" Hit Like just for that part. 😂

[@Doveux]

Looking to upgrade my NAS from the Synology DS218j (Served me well, but very underpowered) which I want to run Nextcloud and Plex on---it's tricky to know what the best option is, my unfamiliarity with BSD is leading me more towards a Linux-based option, also knowing if I have access to docker than I can basically run anything I want in a clean manner. I hadn't considered Unraid before, but I'll be looking closely at it now. I'm also curious if you've used Nethserver at all? It's CentOS/RHEL based, primary GUI is provided by Cockpit which on other systems seems quite lacking in features but the Nethcloud team have really added a lot into it.

[@Banzai51]

"I love FreeNAS and ZFS, but I know in my heart of hearts that Unraid is better for home users. But I don't want to admit that so I'll talk around it and bring up a bunch of other products that we really shouldn't be talking about for home users."

[@stevoblevo]

this is so true, and if I made a video I think I would fall into the same trap. The problem is that ZFS, BSD, and jails are technologically superior so a geek has a hard time giving up on them. Linux, docker, and the rest has more popularity which is far better for a home user. Even in watching this video I know I should go with UnRaid but that ZFS/BSD/Jail goodness tho!

[@Ivan989000462]

can I install truenas or freenas on unraid server as VM and passthrough physical HDD? I want to install the OS on Primary vDisk then passthrough physical HDD

[@MineCrafterCity]

Should you get unraid or just use centos or other linux distro? I mean, you probably already need a RAID card anyways if you have more than 6 or 8 drives.. That raid card can also do raid right?

[@MrNoname7890]

3:00 I didn't expect my rack to suddenly appear. What a weird surprise xD

[@shhhpark]

coming from a synology nas using shr-1 btrfs and thinking of building a unRAID server. What type of array do you think would be best for a plex server/downloader?

[@mrbtripp2]

Wendell's fireside chat format is good stuff! Just need a fire in the background.

[@myselfremade]

Or a hot server

[@fbisurveillancevan1635]

I have the tower version of that case. Can you put up a parts list that you used to connect the disk shelf including the disk shelf part? I've been thinking about expanding and rather than trial and error, I willl go with what someone has already tried and worked.

[@rudiservo]

Never tried ZFS, but on the BTRFS I can give an input on the raid 1, 0 and 10, it saved me more times that I would like to admit. I've had disk died on me, raid 10, converted to raid 1 removed a drive completely, bad sectors and... the data is all there, I mean the survivability and resilience of btrfs on RAID 1 and 10, is so good that it's frightening, you can convert the array to practically anything while you have stuff smashing on the hard drive (I mean production stuff... pls dont kill me). Also it is natively supported by docker and LXD for snapshot and subvolumes.

[@rmp5s]

Have run unRAID on an HP Proliant for YEARS now and it's been great. I keep adding disks to it and it keeps chugging right along. Up to ~42TB of parity protected storage! Love it!! Highly recommended!!

[@ByGraceThroughFaith777]

Honest question, can I just use Windows 10 for simplicity purposes at home? If all I want to do is to backup and share a Raid 1 drive for family photos and stuff like that? What would I gain by using Freenas or Unraid for regular home usage and maybe Plex? Thanks community

[@pavlob2]

Super helpful video! What about Cassandra or GFS? How do they compare to ZFS? Also what about drive pools like StableBit? I'm trying to build a NAS and at the researching phase now... Would really appreciate the help! Thanks

[@bjorn980]

Nice Video, thank you for that!

[@beauregardslim1914]

ZFS is portable to macOS too, which makes it really sweet if you are dual booting on a development laptop. ClonOS looks very interesting.

[@Mashslyfox13]

This vid has gotten my wheels turning and given me ideas for when I set up my home server

[@balloth]

Hello, you talk in this vid about tests of BTRFS Raid 5/6, the only thing I found regarding Raid BTRFS on your YT channel or blog was about RAID 1. Did you misspoke in this vid? If not, where can I found the blog post/vid about it if there is one?

[@idokwatcher2062]

Docker containers to do what? What do docker containers have to do with network attached storage?

[@dsmooveagle18]

You guys, gamers nexus, Hardware Unboxed, & Tech YES City make up the best parts of the tech community.

[@falconeagle3655]

Thanks always wanted to know about these.

[@kennyj4366]

Oh god my head hurts lol. Great video, thank you 🙂👍👍

[@distantanomaly9649]

I was having an issue trying to figure out what I'd use for my newly built NAS. UnRaid is cool and all but realized I didn't want to pay knowing that at some point I'll have more than 6 storage devices added. So I went with FreeNas!

[@RealDids]

I'd like to point out that Docker support on FreeNAS can be a big PITA to setup, mainly due to the non-standard requirement of Rancher. Unraid on the other hand comes with the Docker Engine by default, and the GUI definitely works well with it.

[@code1997]

Ever took a look at XCP-ng and XOA?

[@carlhussain5170]

i tried unraid, i was able to boot up using vnc. however passthrough didnt work for my gtx 1070 even though i grabbed the bios from gpu-z so it was 100% correct for it? any tips at all?

[@drewcipher896]

Great video. I learned that I don't need to use either to do what I want.

[@sethwilliamson]

Speaking of Proxmox, a cool video idea might be to demonstrate a 3-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster, perhaps using three dual-port 100 Gbps Mellanox cards off eBay to form a three-way mesh/crossover network for their replication and sync. (Yes, scalability, but bang for the buck at this level of deployment is hard to beat.)

[@kumaraswin123]

I installed freenas. I keep getting permission denied error when i open any share.. i changed every permission but it doesn't worked.. so i switched to ubuntu server with samba

[@hkalisvaart]

Wendel, have you tried playing around with the alpha for zfs raidz expansion?

[@adriandeveraaa]

Ok now im confused. I thought ZFS was a software raid solution that Unraid and Freenas used but from what you explain that is not the case?

[@erazorCTF]

When he occasionally looks at the second camera, it throws me off :D

[@CoMMenDaToR]

Very useful, good job. Thank you.

[@bikerchrisukk]

Nice overview Wendell 👍 It does sound a bit like the complexity of making unraid work as preferred, takes about a quarter/half of the time needed to learn FreeNAS (now TrueNAS of course!)?

[@Inkrementalgeber]

Do you plan to make an updated KVM/QEMU + GPU Passthrough guide?

[@Kenny_Ded]

Windows = Schizofrenik moose on rollerblades ❤

[@positivemelon7578]

Wow! I never knew you could do the trick to show zfs snapshots on windows, I'll set that up right now.

[@auyerrafael3944]

Wendel and GN is THE collab of 2019 ! Wendel, hand out some Linux pills for the techtubers !!!

[@rBennich]

How about FreeNAS as a VM in unRaid with passthrough PCIe Raid controller? Just to get a ZFS server + thunderbolt gaming vm in the same box.

[@513v3]

Really Helpfull Thanks

[@johngaltline9933]

Now we just need to figure out how to mount a ZFS pool as a drive in Unraid's array. Currently considering using hardware raid to make use of two dozen 500GB 15k RPM drives I have sitting around.

[@Gunham20]

Is hardware passthrough more stable on truenas scale being Linux based?

[@pankothompson5903]

very good engagement!

[@deemitchell4603]

Dude, any chance of a review on your sponsers ASROCK board? It might require a 2nd mortgage but I'm gonna have to check that out.

[@NoNamenoonehere]

When the Actual Star Trek Starship Enterprise is built,should its networked Hard drives be Running off ZFS! Or unRAID?

[@johnwpierce3]

Command line ZFS is freekin awesome. I ZFS EVERYTHING! I love building dual role Routers/NAS machines for my small biz clients. Router/Nas, ZFS, Funtoo, Bind, Apache, Mariadb, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot, Asterisk, Wayland, Sway and everything in between. Been using Linux for 20+ years. Started sysad 4 years ago by learning vanilla Asterisk, which lead to everything else. It's work, but it is an excellent launchpad and provides plenty of opportunities. Small business consulting is a great place to start applying these skills. You'll wear a lot of hats being in business for yourself, but the reward is well worth it. P.S. GUI's are for Web Browsing, do everything else in a terminal.

[@akurenda1985]

I started with UnRAID, but recently just set up a virtualized FreeNAS install in my ESXI 6.7 host. The main thing I switched to FreeNAS for is ZFS, better virtualization, and I found that my Plex works better on FreeNAS that on UnRAID. I love the idea of UnRAID and the forever expansion of storage, but honestly if you use mirrors in FreeNAS, you're just buying 2 drives instead of 1 and you're getting multiple drive performance when you add to that pool. I'm still deciding what I wanna do with my Unraid box. I toyed with the idea of Proxmox and setting up some ZFS shares, or possibly virtualizing another FreeNAS install for replication. ClonOS looks pretty neat! I may give it a try. As always, keep the good content coming. You're a freakin' IT guru.

[@Mr.Leeroy]

>you're just buying 2 drives instead of 1 and you're getting multiple drive performance when you add to that pool moreover, keep the pools separate and do not compromise overall reliability.

[@guitaristtom]

Maybe with it switching over to TrueNAS Core, maybe it'll be worth making a new "2021 edition" of this video?

[@ZeroB4NG]

IMHO for home users unRAID is the best option simply because you can mix and match HDDs pretty much any way you want (parity disk needs to be the largest in the system but that is the only rule), with FreeNAS last time i checked you need an array of same sized drives and once it is running you can't change anything anymore after the fact, with unRAID i recently even removed a drive from my Array. Small 1TB disk finally died, i just moved the data in emulated mode to another disk that had free space with the unbalance plugin, then just redid the parity disk over night and voila its back up and running with one old disk less, no data lost. The other thing is, as a home user i got the System in my room, i don't have a dedicated server room (yet *cough* maybe one day) point being every HDD that spins makes noise, uses power, ZFS relies on the server running 24/7 356 days a week, the HDDs never spin down, i got called names in the FreeNAS sub-reddit (bunch of fainbois!) because i dared to ask if it could do that. unRAID spins down HDDs after being 15 minutes idle (well you can set it up any way you want), point being my unRAID Server, while idle is whisper quiet.

[@josephdtarango]

You can setup ZFS on Ubuntu; which gives the best user experience. FreeNAS is for those that want a dedicated system.

[@ElijahPerrin80]

Is it old school or misinformed of me to think mirroring 2 storage servers and having raid 5 on each would be best for storing data like video production archive until it is full and transfer to tape for long term storage once you have enough data for a tape. Then have a workstation with substantial fast storage and appropriate gpu and processor speed would be best for an editing suite for video production? Store finished projects to the server once complete and and clean the workstation for the next project. I can see the benefit of a Nas drive for people who do not want to manage data storage or is this the best way to manage data these days? Or is it at the point a virtual machine from a server is best and your workstation is simply a relay

[@adityajangid1978]

hey, so we are trying to make a lab environment for students of our college so that every student can access his/her designated Ubuntu virtual machine through the web browser it every virtual machine should be a clone of each, meaning every student should get a VM with same specifications, we are working on a backend for the web site but how do make a server which can make of run at least 30 VMs at a time which can be accessed from any place in the world. I hope I made this clear.

[@sazrocks6]

Wendell there’s a switch to autostart docker containers... no script needed.

[@Fawkes-ent]

Dockers in unriad now boot on startup fine or have done from jan when i bought it

[@brent225]

Fully respect that. I'm a power user not a system admin so FreeNAS is well over my head.. The community was also 0 help, expect to get rinsed for not reading/understanding the wiki before posting. Unraid is perfect for me plenty of good video tutorials(spaceinvader one) and the forum is a wealth of information.

[@wcg66]

I eventually settled on using unRAID because I started out with an array of mismatched drives. I bought a bigger parity drive on sale and started from there. The advantage for me is that the application support via docker does everything I needed that I was setting up manually with command line Linux: Plex, sabnzbd, Transmission, Steam game servers, backup clients, BTSync, etc. I’ve had a 4 TB drive fail and the server continued to work via emulation, added a new drive of a different size, and recovered fully.

[@RealDids]

Regarding the Docker IP binding in Unraid, it is actually possible using the GUI alone, but it requires dedicating a single NIC to Docker/the IP in question.

[@RubenKelevra]

"Not the most stable experience, unless you run bleeding edge." 😙🎶

[@psionx1]

if your using bleeding edge and something isn't broken then your clearly not doing enough with it to actually need it to begin with. security updates usually don't cause many issues but library and kernel updates 100% have the ability to cause WW3.

[@ChristianHolzberger]

For the docker Autostart try restart=unless-stopped. The Containers should come up right after reboot.

[@meptalon]

On the docker container "not starting after reboot", I beg to differ, it works just fine here (and did on older versions and still works on the latest one). I can even choose which dockers always run at boot and which ones don't. Not sure why or how you did, but it's not about Unraid not supporting proper docker start at boot time.

[@djnaffie]

Same here, running Unraid for over 9 years now (still from the same 2GB USB drive it came on lol) and used docker from when it was available. I never had problems with docker not starting, or the array not starting (only when there's something wrong with a disk). Array starts, shares are mounted, Docker starts and then the individual dockers start.

[@aidanjt]

If I were to wager a guess, I'd say shoehorning in ZFS may have throwing the supported boot up routine out of whack. But yes, unless you do something crazy, your dockers should absolutely start on boot.

[@JohnDoe-gs1cb]

@@djnaffie and how is your experience after 10 years? Did you loose some file?

[@djnaffie]

@@JohnDoe-gs1cb I've lost several hard drives in the past 10 years and I could always recover from parity. Only once I lost some data when I didn't follow the right procedure to replace a failed disk. But that was my own fault.

[@yashaskm11]

We need an updated video, truenas scale vs unraid

[@exow5552]

You made unraid to work with ZFS, well done :D

[@cbremer83]

Been running freenas at home for about three years now. Zero issue with it. Storage upgrades are pretty simple with ZFS. I have added one more three drive VDEV so far. Went smooth. Only drawback to this is that the old data is not redistributed between the VDEVs after adding one.

[@Minitomate]

"These are aimed to a home user hardware." **Proceeds to show a 2 powerful server builds.**

[@JaiJai177]

😂😂😂☠

[@shifty277]

Great video and explanation. I hope you know that. Thumbs up.

[@Level1Techs]

Glad you liked it! ~ Editor Amber

[@jefferytse]

How do you connect the net app expansion to the system?

[@Monasucks]

Please more of this stuff

[@KeeganDent]

Man you’ve got to try XCP-ng with the open Xen Orchestra web management. Getting familiar with xenserver commands takes a bit, but the payoff being able to use this FOSS but enterprise-grade L1 hypervisor is worth it

[@JohnDoe-gs1cb]

There are so few GOOD videos of xen

[@xVOniEnzeruVx]

Been using proxmox for a few years as well. Absolutely loving it

[@Daldaren]

Great shoutout to Primitive Technology.. One of the best KZbin channels.

[@sparkyenergia]

Have you thought about Solaris or its Illumos based derivatives?