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I’ve been looking at different #homelab operating systems in the last couple of videos, and in this one I’m focusing on #Unraid I’ll admit I’m biased—I already run it on two servers. Unraid is a great choice for beginners who are serious about getting into home labbing. If you’ve got an old computer with a few drives and want to play with VMs, install Docker containers, and manage files—without getting bogged down in setting up complex shares or RAID arrays—Unraid makes it simple. The standout feature, and what makes it worth the $50 in my view, is that you can use different sized drives in the same array—something #TrueNAS doesn’t allow. Beyond that, it’s user-friendly but also powerful enough to grow with you through your entire home lab journey.
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5077
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Duration
5m 41s
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NoobzI haven't tried unraid yet so this is very informative. Thank you! I love zfs file system and truenas still lets you *use* drives that mismatch in size, but if you add them to the same video, you will have to leave some space unused. you can create different vdevs with different disk arrays that are all part of the same pool though. plus you can virtualize trueNAS 😎 I currently have trueNAS on a VM inside my proxmox server. proxmox does support zfs natively, but didn't have some of the features that trueNAS did when I built it.
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NickI loved unraid. I still do it’s great for virtualizing PC and passing graphics cards. But I loved to a proxmox snd trrnas setup on 2 PC.
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Oct 1, 2025Unraid is awesome, Trunas is impressive, I just got a review licence for HexOS so that may be the best?
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NickI turned my old gaming pc into unraid. I’d distro hop my VM pass graphics and mouse it was flawless most of the time. I even gave it a SSD for windows so I could get like 95% of my performance on a vm.
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Cirefor protecting your USB, go with a 2.0, or if hard to find, 3.0 in an older 2.0 slot. the USB 2 slots don't run as hot and live longer. the other thing, the os is loaded into ram from the USB, the USB only acts as a GUID check, otherwise thank you for the video! this is the system I'm looking at for my build (if my CPU ever ships). my gaming PC will probably go pop os when I finally break away from windows.
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Oct 1, 2025Yeah, that's why if your usb dies, the system keeps running. Glad it helped.
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njc2oHaving to lock up a usb port seems like a huge downside
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Oct 1, 2025It is, I know they are working on making it work on an NVMe, but it's a pain, but deal breaker?
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Edgar Guzman OlmosAdd USB ports?
njc2oI’ve got proxmox and true nas on my new server, seemed pretty noob friendly with chat gpts help! I’m not usb restricted but just surprising you can’t run it off an internal drive
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ChipCan you look at HexOS?
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Oct 1, 2025I took a look last night, but I can't get access as its like $200 and im WAY to poor for that! but HexOS is Truenas trying to be Unraid. ill do a vid.
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