Unraid

[Reciever]

Good Evening All, 

 

Hiew had been lecturing me for some time now to get Unraid since I had so much random hardware laying around and got to say I should have done so sooner. Even bought a license after the trial ended, its been a lot of fun playing with the different docker containers to see what I can get working and for what purposes.

 

Anyone else dabble in Unraid? 

[Mr. Fox]

2 hours ago, Reciever said:

Good Evening All, 

 

Hiew had been lecturing me for some time now to get Unraid since I had so much random hardware laying around and got to say I should have done so sooner. Even bought a license after the trial ended, its been a lot of fun playing with the different docker containers to see what I can get working and for what purposes.

 

Anyone else dabble in Unraid? 

I've never heard of it but I'll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing.

[Reciever]

19 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

I've never heard of it but I'll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing.

Its basically a NAS OS, the license is tied to the UID of the flash drive that its loaded on. The application they have for loading it on the drive is IMHO not the greatest but there are ways around it to accomplish effectively the same thing.

 

I was able to use a container, which required two other containers (RAM Cache + DB) for Manga, then another container for metadata to build the library. Same thing for my Anime library and the media server that it lives on. I was also able to build a mesh network with TailScale so my friend can access the same libraries without deliberately exposing my whole server to the internet. recently started toying with backups with UrBackup which was fairly easy to setup and get running.

One of my drives seemed to have either got unplugged or potentially failing last night.
 

 

Parity is already rebuilding that drive, that being said these drives all have 6+ years of on-time so its time to start phasing some of them out and getting a second parity drive.

Then you also have cache pools where logically they are all in the same location but physically pending how you set it up you set it up the behavior of the cache changes. For one you can have media cache just sit in the cache pool so that its quick and snappy. You can also transfer files to the Array that goes to the cache first (So that its super fast) and gets moved automatically or manually at a later time.

 

I have been debating moving the whole thing into the 10850K platform you sold me some time ago. Its currently on a Dell 7810 w/ 2667v3's but the threads are getting fully saturated from time to time pending what I am doing. 

 

The advent of Docker containers into a NAS OS is admittedly more fun that I originally thought it would be, I need to use something like Gemini from time to time to help me connect the dots as the containers dont always say what they need to operate. 


The other thing I want to better understand is ZFS. My understanding is that it uses RAM to cache files so that accessing them is faster. I wasnt able to get it to cache more than 16GB when there are many reports of people caching 256GB+ so I may try that again as I have 64GB in this current system but my 2 other towers have 128GB each and havent been using as much recently.

 

Going to try my hand at what people call the arr stack, basically its a fully automated process flow for media management, media metadata and integration into plex