ashlar Wrote:Guys, relax... I hope it's clear that I respect unRAID. But to do what you are doing you need to learn Linux. Were there no alternatives... Maybe. An alternative, for my needs, exists. Hence I use it.
And please, do not make it sound as if using all the stuff you listed it's easy and "out of the box". It's not and it is supported just by the users on the forum, not officially by the company that sells you the product (yeah, FlexRAID is free, unRAID not).
In any case, in my opinion, Lime-tech should work on a full distribution. As long as implementing other server functions it's a job for Linux-heads... The product will always be lacking. Eskro did tons of tutorials, none concerning how to use it as a full OS. Because that's not what it is.
It is a good product, though, no doubt about it.
Edit: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7524.0
There you go. I need Squeezebox server. I search the forums, this is what I come up with. I use an OS that does what I want. Simple
For a Linux power user it's a great solution.
actually most add on type items are easily installed from a program called unmenu that is easy to install when you install unraid to your flash drive......
funny thing is we are discussing being a linux head on the forums of a program that a lot of people say you need to be a linux head to use...lol
just like this forum and running the live version of xbmc and unraid and their forums most things you would want to run plenty of info can be found in the forums so you don't need to be a linux guru to run it.....I have said before that I had not even looked at linux before and I am running live on a revo 1600 and running an unraid server
xbmc came first and it has been fantastic
then i looked at Nas software.....boiled down to unraid and flexraid
flexraid seems to be good software albeit not having a live parity function yet
the thing that swayed me was the lack of activity on their forums....i even posted kind of a shout out post to check activity.....didn't go to well...lol
not that it alone would say how well the software would be but i had confidence in unraid also but hey its software and things go wrong....i just wanted to know that when there was a problem that there would be more than 1 person who could help
so with a very active forum.....a lot of add ons written by other users and all the other advantages thats why I chose unraid
given enough time in a Nas software discussion then the "bit rot" crusaders would come out.....whats up darkscout....lol
also given only 1 drive would be eaten up for parity....can freely add any size drive and freely add them 1 at a time since im not independently wealthy sealed the deal for me
sure you can use some other software to add more protection but if you have some data that is truly that important to you then you wont leave it to ANY software and will have multiple backups of it anyway....so the money spent on unraid for an upper license is a lot cheaper than the other hard drives will cost for more protection
and i don't care how many parity drives you can run but the day that saves your Nas from fire flood or major lightning strike then that's the software i will go with...lol