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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 2 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Has a nice UI, let's me mix and match disks, let's me host docker containers plus a VM with gpu pass through.

All basically out of the box. (Ok - Pass through was a bastard) All for a one off price.

I don't know if there are other options that let me do all of that, unraid has always been the one mentioned.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To note, unless you buy the most expensive tier it's no longer a one time purchase.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's still a one time purchase for the license. It's only OS updates that would need to be paid for yearly after the 1st year

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Good point. I got 1 year of ultimate, with the plan to upgrade to perpetual if it was good (it is!).

The cost of that is still less than the cost would have been to buy new matching drives.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pass through is always a bastard.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've always found it helpful to use the time stone and yell "IOMMU I've come to bargain" until it works.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

It just needed the AMD compatibility plugin, lots of time wasted until someone pointed that out though.