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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] Enoril@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago

For me, it was the parity system and the fact that i could mix different disk sizes and the vm + graphic card pass-through setup. Unraid helped me to start in this world.

Years later, after gaining experience on all of that and investing in dedicated pcie card and disks, I've moved to truenas my data and containers.

Still using unraid for the vm part. But i plan to migrate to truenas too at some point.