#Unraid os x vm software#
#Unraid os x vm trial#
#Unraid os x vm windows#

But the system prefs are elsewhere, and the plugins prefs on another one. While writing I'm just remembering all the setup headaches I've had with unRAID during the last years: the OS is on the USB stick, but if you enable dockers you need to create and IMG somewhere else, and there are prefs for the dockers stored, and if you run out of space inside the IMG file, then you need to disable all the dockers, and expand it, and enable everything again. Where is the OS stored and how safe it is? I mean, is it similar to unRAID, where the OS and prefs is stored in the USB stick, and loaded into the RAM when the server is On? Or is it stored on the HDD? Do you use Time Machine? Is it reliable? with unRAID I'm having issues, I don't know if it's because of my Mac, but it gets corrupted quite often, so I have to start a new one after a couple of weeks And the point about the size of the replacement disk and access to individual disks is something important to consider too. What you say about the read-write performance sounds quite interesting. It's good to know I'm not the only one with this feeling. I also had an unRAID setup prior to discovering XPEnology and can completely understand your feelings about it. Personally, I have no regrets about making the switch and would do it all over again in a heartbeat. With XPEnoloy, you would need the entire array and in the correct order to access it from another computer. Secondly, with unRAID, you can easily take out one of the drives in your unRAID array and it can be accessed in Linux.

While you can make arrays with drives of varying sizes and makes (with SHR), if/when you replace or add drives, the drive you use will have to be equal to or larger than the largest drive in your current array. The only disadvantage I can see is that with XPEnology, it is slightly less flexible with drives. I have not tried any other apps on XPE box. After transitioning to XPEnology, I now use Plex server to replace AirVideo and have been extremely happy with it. Coming from unRAID, XPEnology will seem like a cakewalk to set up. Lastly, I find the AFP to work much better than unRAID. Also, the UI of the Synology DSM is fantastic and much more fun to use than the unRAID UI ever will be. On XPEnology, I now regularly see 110MB/s or more on reads and writes. When I had my unRAID, I was never able to get much more than about 40MB/s reads and writes.

Why add an extra layer of complication if I don't have to. I felt the same way, which is why I went with a bare metal setup. Virtualization sounds like coming out from a headache to land onto another one, isn't it? Is anybody there with tips ideas or comments about replacing unraid with XPEnology? Is everything compatible? Or are some features inside DSM disabled (like iOS access or something like that)? Does it works with UPS's? Is it reliable and easy to maintain? Crashplan (to backup the whole content of the server on the cloud)

#Unraid os x vm software#

3 x 3TB WD Caviar Green (x1 for parity, 2x for data)Īnd about the software I'm running on it:

#Unraid os x vm windows#

To describe my requirements, I own 3 Macs, 2 PCs with Windows 10, an APC UPS connected with USB to the server, and the server has the following specs: Can this be a serious alternative to unRAID in a domestic environment? I was surprised when I found Hybrid RAID, which is why I chose unRAID, thinking it was the only solution to allow different size disks with redundancy. I discovered recently this mod, and as Synology software looks fantastic and really friendly to use, I'm curious about its reliability and performance (I mean XPEnology) on a normal computer.

Then, you depend on volunteers job to keep them maintained.

#Unraid os x vm trial#

Every docker requires research, doubts, trial and errors until you get it working. While it's very reliable, it's extremely boring and really difficult to add apps or features (dockers) to it. I own a computer with unRAID installed on it.