Unraid has been ridiculously frustrating, a rant to clear my head before a break.

[@JunctionRunner]

So, this video is literally just a rant to clear my head, I'm not really looking for answers or suggestions because I imagine at this point, it's going to feel like a circle of hell revisiting things I've already been working on, and it would take way too much time and energy to fully, in detail recap every single thing that's been going on, hence I won't be posting it in any forums or subreddits, especially since there I'll probably just be told again that I'm doing something wrong lol. The past month of trying to configure unraid to work the way I want, or hell, even properly has been a hellish purgatory of feeling like I'm about to crack the problem and have it all perfectly working, only to be met by some other quirk, or performance issue, or problem that breaks things, and I'm at the point of wanting to say "fuck unraid is garbage" and write it off entirely. I see so many examples of it just working perfectly for others and not for me, I know that it can do most of what I want, so hopefully after I step back from it for a good week or two, and new transceivers arrive, I can hopefully, hopefully get things configured at working properly, It does really seem at this point that unraid is really only good for archival stuff and not the kind of use I was hoping from it though, but that will also hopefully be addressed with a replacement transceiver and smb multichannel actually properly functioning which burnt up two weeks of trying to figure out. It's going to be difficult as hell to turn switch off thinking about it and wanting to test or try different things, but man do I need a break from it.

[@michaelerler9228]

unraid writes the data to 1 Disk (+parity) only, so you get at most the writespeed for the disk, for a sata drive at most 200MB/s...

[@JunctionRunner]

Unless you have a cache pool of SSDs...

[@grindfi]

Wow im running a similar setup woah and yes i get so frustrated with raid setups, moved to truenas, havent looked back, though im not an extreme power user

[@allanau]

I know a lot of people may not like this. I just end up using an older Mac Mini with a Thunderbolt 10gbe and a really good DAS. Probably the easiest server setup I ever setup. The thing I like the most I can disconnect the DAS if I have to and it’s just a computer still have access to my files. I did run QNAP and I still run one at home but so far I like this setup. Just use a plain computer to run the file sharing and video distribution. I know it’s not for everyone.

[@subterficial]

Honestly, I really love truenas core. The only real feature I could like that is unraid exclusive is the mixed disk size. Everything else just seems to be better in truenas unless you need to squeeze out every spare drive you can get access to. Was running 24 3tb surplus drives in my NAS, and it just goes.

[@JunctionRunner]

Mixed drives is the 100% killer feature for unraid which is fantastic. I think openmediavault with mergerfs can do something similar, but not quite as well, and it's also less capable than unraid from what I read. If I didn't have a slim budget truenas would 100% be the way to go, but it's very clearly an enterprise class solution, which obviously means you usually have a proper budget.

[@joseph3164]

hmm, I wonder if it the hardware config that you have is the issue. The idea that unraid is truly hardware agnostic has always seemed to good to be true to me. With that being said I run a wonky of mix nvme/ssd/hdd drive setup on an old hp prebuit gaming tower, with a 2.5Gb dual intel nic and have had no issues with it. I can saturate the 2.5Gb connection from any device (mac, windows, or linux). I wish you the best of luck with everything and I hope you can figure out the source of those issues. I'm sure folks have already suggested this, but have you tried using different RAM? Since unraid runs in ram I wonder if that might be the source of your issues if you are using some ECC or other non-standard ram. Cheers and best of luck!

[@JunctionRunner]

It could very well be something quirky, this is relatively specialized hardware, it is using an lsi controller, but a Quanta oem one, and the backplanes are made by them as well. I initially thought that there was some potential bottleneck with how the sas expander was dolling out lanes across all 12 drives, but that was ruled out with windows. I do have ECC memory but I haven't run a memtest, since I have ample time I will definitely give that a go. I've never had a bad stick of memory on any of my own systems, so it's not a habit I'm into, but maybe this is the one time I do get one. It is samsung ram though so it should be pretty solid. I am also I think just on an edge case for unraid, trying to use it for much higher performance than 90% of people are I'm sure which likely doesn't help. If I only had gigbit networking, I think I'd be more than happy after the very basic initial setup.

[@darthkielbasa]

I was in a circle of hell with my logs getting spammed, filling up and weird shit happening. I got it sorted and learned a bit. I scan YT every day for unraid related content. I really enjoy the OS. Thank you for posting.

[@JunctionRunner]

I definitely hope I can get the the point of thoroughly enjoying the OS myself. I've already got a small group of tabs of fine tuningand tweaking things to try and hone it in to where I need performance wise, but there's no point doing anything until the parts arrive with an estimate of July 5th currently, hopefully not that long though. There's definitely all sorts of cool uses for it as well aside from network storage but that's my main focus, so it's somewhat discouraging lol. Not much point exploring the other stuff yet.