I’m coming up on another space limit and I’m taking this time to reevaluate my setup. Current setup:

Plex server: windows 10 pro 12700k 32gb ram 10 gig Nic 500gb gen 4 boot 2TB P3 plus seed drive 2Tb 980 pro seed drive Running plex, arr stack, Qbittorrent, ups software

Storage server: windows server 2019 13100k 16gb ram 10 gig Nic 500gb gen 4 boot 1tb 980 pro cache 4x12 TB refurbished seagate exos driver Running stable bit drivepool/scanner

Offsite backup: Synology ds220+ 3.7TB usable

My 44 TB of usable storage is almost full, I have personal documents/video x3 duplicated and all of my Linux ISO’s have no redundancy. I am adding 2x20tb soon but before I do I want to see if it would be smart to move to Unraid in the process.

I will keep my plex server on windows for now, but I have been learning Unraid during my 2 trials I’ve done. Should I change my NAS to Unraid? Will I still get 10gig with nvme read/write cache?

I will not be getting new hardware for Unraid as I’ll be reusing my current server. Is the best course of migration putting the 2x20 tb drives in my plex server, move data to that then repopulate the drives on Unraid?

Any other advice is appreciated.

  • BadWithUserNames456@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’d suggest doing what you have already done and continue to try different OS to find the one you are most comfortable with, and has the features you want. Personally I have used Unraid for about the last year. My experience with it has overall been positive, but there has been several times I’ve been left scratching my head as to why something is set up how it is. For example, I have a 1 tb cache drive for my array. I’d expect if I tried to transfer over more data than the cache can handle that after the cahce filled up the data I’m transferring would automatically fallback to transferring directly to the hard drive array. Instead if I try to transfer more than 1 tb the transfer errors out. After looking into it the general consensus is to disable the cache drive for large transfers, which is annoying.

  • snatch1e@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Well, I am usually on the side “if it works, don’t touch it”.

    So, if it is possible to add the additional storage to your current configuration and expand a pool. I do not see any reasons to change the OS unless you have issues with the current system.

    If you have already tested unRAID using trial license and performance was good enough for you and everything was stable, than, it might make sense to swap to it.

    • SSavage260@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That’s what I’m leaning towards as my storage server has given me zero issues, not one bad update so far. Would like to have the 1 drive parity with out spending weeks on snap raid.

      It seems like Unraid is very similar to drivepool only difference is redundancy, and ability to run dockers easier.

      If Unraids cache and array can be seen in windows as one drive letter like drive pool then I have little reason not to move

  • VtheMan93@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Omv or truenas. I dont feel super comfortable with ws2019 or 22 for that matter.

    I dont want to reccomend unraid bc I dont want to put any faith in a OS which runs off a not dedicated storage media.