Update! Due to the type a parity used by Unraid solid state drives shouldn't be used in the array with spinning drives. I removed the NVMe SSD from the array and used it as a second cache pool. ru-vid.com/show-UC9rU_5YnMDUPc0IP8NwZOigcommunity?lb=UgkxSU4wYYpzklBXVz3M90sOjRf_Mlw8cJAJ
@@hloc1 Afaik its considered a poor choice in most disk arrays to mix HDDs and SSDs, more issues sprout over time (see people just split into two arrays or commit all to cache)
@@hiRyan329329 Unraid does not use a storage array but JBOD with no performance benefit or striping , so.. moot point. That said, for that reason, I can't imagine why you would want to miss different types of drives in Unraid in the first place. No wonder he thinks he needs SSD drives for 4k.
@christopherblaisdel Agreed, and with it being a Jbod of sorts and the way it seperates and sorts your storage it would just be entirely random which files are snappy. Also if running parity for the most part you'd be limited by the speed of your parity drive (reads obviously an exception). If an SSD is needed it's why they included a cache pool option
As an actual monkey pressing keys on the keyboard, this video not only sold me on unRaid but also gave me all the setup information I needed. You are appreciated.
I really appreciate that you outlined the entire video at the start so we knew what to expect, and that the whole video was very concise. This was incredibly helpful!
Would love to see a tutorial about PLEX and nvidia gpu passthrough. Also, I believe there is a way to run pihole on unraid to block all ads coming into the network!
I just finished converting my old Windows Server 2016 build to an Unraid server and this video was extremely helpful to let me see in advance what was going to happen when I wanted to go through the setup process. Thanks for breaking this down and making it easy to follow along with!
Great video. Good flow, plenty of info and screengrabs etc. Would love to see a fully fleshed out server with multiple docker apps working together with each other like Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Qbitorrent bound to a specific network card on a VPN.
Not only did I test this over the summer messing around with a loaner computer, I am finishing up my actual server now and that makes me glad to have seen this video twice now
Only the intro intself got me liking the video and subscribing to the channel with no hesitation! I wish all videos on youtube did a 30-second overview like you did there before the actual 15mins+ footage. Great work! thank you for your content
In the middle of upgrading my drives and starting over from my last unraid config and this really helped me find the larger errors hurting my system (Namely the memtest found one of the sticks was dying and I had XMP on). Super helpful!
I started with a TerraMaster 2-bay server with two 4 TB drives and it mirrored one drive to the other so you got 4 TB of storage. I planned to digitize our movies and use Plex for access. Well about a year later, we filled it up with TV shows (The Shield, Andy Griffith, Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and all seasons of Star Trek) and all kinds of movies I collected over the last 45 years or so. My son and I used 4 old laptops to convert DVDs and Blu-Rays BUT, we encoded most of them to MP4 files and we tried to keep the sizes for most movies at 1.4 to 2.0 GB in size for an average movie. Some longer movies were larger of course. The quality on our 75-inch main TV is excellent. Then I got another TerraMaster 4-bay server and put in 4 10 TB drives so it gave us 20 TB more space. Fixed, right? Nope, 3 years later it is now full. I can buy larger drives and just swap them in and let TerraMaster rebuild but I opted to build a server in a PC case and add in another 14 drives. I purchased unraid and never looked back. Now we have over 140 TB of space and we keep all seasons of our collections on the server full time. I used to just add seasons as we watched them and kept deleting the watched season. It was a pain. Our son inherited the two Terramasters and he has them set up as game servers in his room. Everyone wins. The best decision I ever made was putting in a server. We had several hurricanes in our town over the last few years and being able to watch TV really helps when the cable goes down. I never realized how many DVDs and Blu-Rays we had until we put them into laptops to digitize them all. My son kept track and it was over 3,000 disks in total. I was in the military and got deployed 6 times. I had a small DVD player that I took with me and my wife and son always had DVDs ready to go. I watched the Shield and Justified on deployments and a slew of movies. It used to be a nightmare to look into boxes and cabinets to find a movie you wanted to watch. We have our TV collections in one room do those were easier to find. Great, great video.
I work from home most of the time and I live in the UK. With the current gas prices, I would definitely use it for heating our home. I know electricity is even more expensive, but at least I could feel the heat when I screw up my code… ;-)
Not sure if you ever made it, but a tutorial series for unraid would be freaking amazing. Thank you for showing how to do the disc checks. I have like 12 randomly sized hard drives from working on family and friends laptops and upgrading them to ssds. I can't be sure of their quality 😂
Thanks you actually taught me and answered some questions I’ve been having surrounding the jargon used when it comes to home servers. I now understand parity a little bit more and what the hell a docker container is 😅
Great video. Just started using unraid about a month ago. Plex setup was a breeze with the nvidia driver plugin. Would love to see a video of your VM with GPU passthrough as I can’t seem to get it to work.
Thank yu sooo much. I am a gamer forever but an embryo when it comes to anything server related. You took the anxiety and through it right out the window. I am eternally grateful guy. Cheers! Long Live the proud Nerdverse. We always make sure we help our own if we can!!!!
This is so awesome!! I was thinking about TrueNas but as soon I seen this video, I’m definitely going to use Unraid!! It looks super user friendly and easy to setup!
Excellent video. I was originally leaning towards TrueNAS Scale, but now that ZFS support is coming for Unraid and seeing your video, this might actually be a better option for me.
You sir are an angel from heaven and you have my undying gratitude. I kept having the dreaded "0x80070035" and even some IT guys could not help me in forums. There is too much jargon out there and IT guys love throwing it out there. The solution was so so so simple and I am too ignorant to know it. After ~60hrs of dealing with SMB problems (see the thread 'Security is not a dirty Word' on Unraid forums) I finally found the solution: my share setting under 'Export' was 'OFF'. In my absolute frustration and after seeing every tutorial out there, the creator of this video explained that a SHARE IS NOT VISIBLE if export is OFF. See minute 10:00 onwards to solve your 0x80070035 error if it does come up, or message me if you are reading this in the future and need help. Cheers to the unRaid community.
I would love to see a windows Server 2016 successful install on Unraid as I am trying to do that on my Unraid box. If you ever have the chance to do a walk-through that would be great and benifit me greatly. Oh and great job on this video as well
Great video! How do you determine how many cores to allocate to each Docker and VM? Here’s my basic setup: Docker for Plex, sonarr, radar, handbrake, etc (always running) Docker for Blue Iris surveillance camera software (always running) VM for Windows (for video editing as needed) I will also pass through the GPU to Plex, Windows, Blue Iris (already know how to)
For most Docker containers you don't need to allocate system resources. The app will use whatever it needs of what's available. For a Windows VM just use what is necessary for the software you are using, you can always adjust as needed without having to rebuild the VM
i have some extra its parts, i was thinking of building a new NAS to replace a really old ReadyNAS. does unraid support remote access. if i have video files i want to access from other physical locations. like give a link to friends for them to access my share folders from their homes.
You ask what I want to do with my unraid server and I want to make a web server like a LAMP setup. Please make a video about database use in the unraid - there Arent many good ones... :)
Hi! Congrats for the video =) How about Unraid VM Gaming now in 2023? Still Working? Im have some problemas, maybe can help?Im trying to create an Unraid Game VM, but i try many videos sollutions, and i still have Black Screen, mayben can help?
UnRaid freezes every time I try to install it, I can not get this thing working 😢, Asus Z9PA-D8 motherboard, I have tried 5 different USB flash drives, even tried to set up the USB the manual away with no luck. I can get to the install menu. I tried all four options with no success. I would really appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
I love how easy this appears to be to set up, my gripe is I already have drives with data on them and it appears to destroy all data when building the arrays, right now im just using a standard windows 10 OS with 16tb of un-raided drives on an old Threadripper Rev2 2920X direct connected to my personal PC with a 10GB/s SFP+ and then connected tot he rest of the house with a 1gb/s standard Ethernet, using it for media and file storage and occasionally a video encoder, I also have it set up so 4 users can log into it remotely at the same time, it's not entirely ideal as the drive speeds are capping out at 400mb/s during file transfers and I know I can get better if I raid the drives but I already have 6tb used of the 16total and no place to back all that data up before starting this unraid setup, unless there is a way for it to build the raid array without destroying any data.
consolidate the data in the fewest drives as possible, start the array with 2 drives, transfer data from the disks to the array and then add the drives to the array as you transfer the data off them.
Ok, great job. But now, would interesting to see you building a home server in a old 90's laptop ($500 or less). I would have a file server to access all my files wherever I am.
I am getting a “CPU is Unsupported” error message when trying to boot. I am using a 1950x threadripper and am using the same version of unraid in the video. I enabled SVM and IOMMU. I don’t know what else to do.
Did you check "Allow UEFI Boot" when creating the Flash Drive? If so do you have CSM Compatibility support disabled? You can also try to disable secure boot, fast boot, and firmware TPM if enabled.
nope ------didnt work stuck on where it says .... log in ---- i dont know if it installed in nvme, most likely didnt ---- so i unpluck the flash drive did a normal boot ,,,, it keep going to bios----- that means it didnt install in nvme ----- pro art series motherboard bty ..... i m pretty sure manys r stuck where it says to log in ....... so limitet info ,,,,,,,,
Unraid doesn’t install to an NVMe SSD. It launches from the flash drive and runs in memory. Pay attention @ 4:30 If you get a server IP address and server name login: that means your server is running and you have to access through a remote browser as I outline.
@@ElevatedSystemsthey used to be lifetime as well and the unlimited devices tier doubled in price. Not a cool development. Imagine you want to run two or three small installs… insane pricing
@@ElevatedSystems On Unraid v6.12.4 Settings - Docker there's a Advanced field with some settings i dont understand. Docker custom network type: macvlan ipvlan. No one on YT speaks about that.
It's not recommended to put SSD's (NVME or otherwise) into the array (trim is not supported and the main risk is that the drives do some 'data management' which invalidates the parity.). Only use spinning mech drives. Put your SSD's into a pool or two.
We need more Unraid tutorial videos like this that are easy to follow and VERY informative. Many newbies are out here looking at Unraid but are trying to figure out where to begin.
this was an excellent video. One thing you touched on that NOBODY else has at least for me. Being new to Unraid I couldn't figure out how subfolders appeared in an unraid share. I though I would have to recreate all the subfolders in each movie as a share. When you used the networking feature to create subfolders inside the network share I understood how to do that. I look forward to your plex install and config tutorial.
yes !!! I just commented in one of your posts, i wanna know how to use the VM mixing windows, Linus and mac os, its this the method where they use the graphics card? i will found out, subscribed ! thank you
As someone whos coming in blind to home servers and unraid, Im EXTREMELY THANKFUL for this easy to follow step by step guide with lots of screengrabs. Subbed.
can i setup UnRaid with no parity drives? I just want each disk to be it's own device, I have no interest in disk mirroring/stripe/raid etc. I backup elsewhere for all data I am interested in. So if I have 4 disks I want them all to be 4 seperate pools, not one big one if you get what I mean.
Hi, thanks for your info on Unraid, I find very interesting. 🙂 Can you maybe help me with my Unraid configuration? I'm not sure yet if I even need a disk for the cache, since all the disks I will use are SSD. My configuration is a 2TB nvme, it's mounted in an Intel Nuc. Then I wanted to connect two external SSD with also 2TB each individually via USB 3.2 (10 Gbit). At first I thought I would use the nvme as a parity disk and the two externals as a storage pool. Assuming I don't need to cache with ssd disks. If I need a cache hard drive despite ssd's, would it be best to take the nvme for cache and one external as storage and one external as parity? Thanks a lot 🙂
Best description I found so far of how to setup the drives, but I ran into one problem. When creating a share from the array I have no option to add cache (1x 2tb ssd) even though I created a pool for it.
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That's a change from the 6.12 update. You would need to add cache as primary, and array as secondary, at least that's what I understood from a short YT update video on this topic.
As a total beginner, this is fantastic. It is well paced and encouraging. My friend sent me here when I mentioned setting up external file shares. I will be watching this many times!
