@gjacobse said in UNRAID: Did it improve since 2017?:

I can't say I trust it,.. to few would suggest it, and the few that might mention it have regularly said - no.

That said - ... what I really find interesting is that I have now seen it mentioned twice now in almost as many days... Just seemed funny and needed some 'additional' exposure.

I have an end goal - and with that an expectation that it will be done similar to how (sane) enterprise solutions would be done. In some regard - I enjoy the challenge of making a number of differently aged platforms work together - but if I want to extend my marketable skills - they need to be,.. in line with the market.

Proxmox may not be common in day to day discussions, but it's been around long enough - and has proven itself that it is 'on par / scale' as most Virtualization software out. So, I'm learning that and rather enjoying it.

But, storage is a failing point for my rack currently. With the ReadyNas biting the dust about a year ago, I decided on a solution, and would rather build anything I put online.

I have several monster cases which could be used,.. or I could go with an prebuilt system... But they quickly exceed the permissible budget..

I don't have any issue with having a discussion around a technological approach. What I do tend to have an issue with is when someone says "this thing is a magic bullet to solve every problem" but they can't explain why it's a magic bullet.

From your point of view, the ask to the other party is "what is Unraid doing that can't be done with mdadm and Cockpit?"

If they need an explanation, spin up a rocky vm with 6 disks, 2 for an R1 and the rest for an R10 (for laughs), it's the same process with a web gui to administer the storage.

Do the same thing on hardware and you have yourself an Array that isn't using a lesser known piece of software compared to existing and well known tools.