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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 ?

Thanks

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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Has a nice UI, let's me mix and match disks, let's me host docker containers plus a VM with gpu pass through.

All basically out of the box. (Ok - Pass through was a bastard) All for a one off price.

I don't know if there are other options that let me do all of that, unraid has always been the one mentioned.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mixing disks is the #1 reason I went with unraid over any other option.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Zfs and truenas core do this fine

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago

Please elaborate. I have only found that all drives will be treated as they would have the smallest capacity in the bunch.

There is some manual workarounds, which is would not call „can do it fine“

Or am I missing something?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To note, unless you buy the most expensive tier it's no longer a one time purchase.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's still a one time purchase for the license. It's only OS updates that would need to be paid for yearly after the 1st year

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good point. I got 1 year of ultimate, with the plan to upgrade to perpetual if it was good (it is!).

The cost of that is still less than the cost would have been to buy new matching drives.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep they changed this somewhat recently I believe? Like a year or two back, not sure - before my time.

Last I checked I think it's now like $50 or $60 for the first year, and renewals are half that, so definitely not terrible.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah in the past year or so. I grandfathered in before they raised the price of that highest tier so I like to be sure people are aware. I'm a big fan and I think it's worth the price.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pass through is always a bastard.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've always found it helpful to use the time stone and yell "IOMMU I've come to bargain" until it works.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

It just needed the AMD compatibility plugin, lots of time wasted until someone pointed that out though.