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I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?

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[–] brognak@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hadn't heard of it, seems like it's similar to Unraid, but parity has to be manually syncd whereas UnRAID syncs constantly?

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda, but it can accept JBOD and you can add new disks of any size whenever you want without the need to reconstruct everything (things that I think that's necessary with UnRAID, or am I wrong?)

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When adding/removing disks you do have to rebuild parity, but it's not the end of the world and it handles it automatically. I run parity checks pretty often anyway (every other week) and it takes the same amount of time.

I just like the Unraid UI and Docker implementation tbh. I used to run everything off Portainer/Compose on my QNAP which was great, but these days I am lazy and having an Update All button is 🤌

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you add disks of different sizes? With SnapRAID if I put a single disks in a different PC, the data is still readable, is this the same with UnRAID? Thanks for the info!

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yepp exact same as Unraid, I have 3x 18tbs one of which is Parity, and a couple old 4gbs I need to drop but am too lazy to do so 😅. Can add whatever size but the parity drive has to be at least the same size as the largest drive in the pool.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check it out!