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Anyone using either and care to comment. Been leaning towards TrueNAS core on a PowerEdge T340 and HBA330
Unraid vs TrueNAS
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I have an old Poweredge R520 rack server for NAS duty and CCTV. Not tried trueNAS personally, and currently run unraid. It has a couple of shares, and CCTV running via a docker.
Good: Has been fairly hassle free to get up and running, and reliable. I like that it spins down drives.
Bad: I notice the poor write speeds ... when I write to it, i tend to write large volumes of data which blows out the cache, and then drops to sub 50Mb/s write speeds.
Prior to that, I was running Ubuntu server and ZFS shares ... and I'd say it was markedly faster in its writes.
Although I paid for the license, I am still considering switching back / trying something else.
Good: Has been fairly hassle free to get up and running, and reliable. I like that it spins down drives.
Bad: I notice the poor write speeds ... when I write to it, i tend to write large volumes of data which blows out the cache, and then drops to sub 50Mb/s write speeds.
Prior to that, I was running Ubuntu server and ZFS shares ... and I'd say it was markedly faster in its writes.
Although I paid for the license, I am still considering switching back / trying something else.
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Been running UnRAID for years now.
Easily saturate gigabit reads and writes with the right settings.
3x14TB, 1x10TB currently from 4x10TB.
Lots of options and very configurable.
Easily saturate gigabit reads and writes with the right settings.
3x14TB, 1x10TB currently from 4x10TB.
Lots of options and very configurable.
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Been running unraid for a year or so since my Drobo decided to lose my array config. Running 4 x 10tb shucked disks and 2 1tb ssds in a mirror for cache.
It’s running on an 8th gen i5, transcoding in plex with no issues at all.
It’s running on an 8th gen i5, transcoding in plex with no issues at all.
Will continue to review, but at this moment I'm leaning more towards TrueNAS Scale with 4 x 4TB WD Red Plus drives, 2 x SSD for boot, 2 x SSD for docker/jails and another 4 TBD drives.