I have several 3.5" HDD drives I would like to use in a NAS, Has anyone used Unraid for a NAS/Nos?
Thinking about RAID 0.
Unfortunately budget will limit me but need to find least expensive host. I did find TrueNas that says it able to run Docker.
use a pc with multiple disks and 8-12GB of memory and install xigmans on it. It has very reliable ZFS filesystem. Use raidz1 ode raidz2 for redundancy. Maybe you can use proxmox hypervisor and install a virtual machine (vm) with xigmans, that is using passthrough HDDs
Rather than striping, consider mirrors. Indeed, ZFS mirrors are an excellent choice because you can do so much more with them, and they really are all that’s needed in the home nowadays.)
- Degraded arrays continue to run
- Replacing and resilvering is quick
- Increasing the size of the mirror is possible (I used the same mirror with multiple machines for over a decade, growing capacity as needed)
- Easy to migrate the mirror
- Reliable
- More cost effective (have a spare drive from the off)
- Use different size drives in the mirror (uses the smaller capacity)
I prefer using a minimal Ubuntu server over Proxmox, TrueNAS etc., and run KVM and Podman plus Cockpit.
However, if you have loads of disks, and don’t want to spend money on ECC memory, consider LVM, which offers lots of flexibility.