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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 7 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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[–] eclipse@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Not really with the same flexibility.

You only get usable capacity of the smallest disk in a vdev or you have to add a new vdev with your newly sized disks.

Unraid lets you mix and match however you like and get all the usable capacity (as long as your parity is your largest sized disks).