The advantages of Unraid are that you can run it on just about any x86 and 64-bit CPU, and that it doesn’t care about your hard drives in the slightest. Until now, Unraid is most likely still used primarily for that case by most users. Unraid for Network-Attached Storage (NAS)Īs written in the short history of Unraid above, Unraid first set out to be the perfect operating system for network-attached storage (NAS). As one machine is cheaper than two machines, this feature made Unraid more economical and more flexible. Instead, they could use their already existing desktop computer. As a virtualization host, users no longer had to run Unraid on a dedicated machine. Other than on many other virtualization hosts, it was possible to interact with the VMs using locally attached displays and peripherals. Be it any Linux Distribution, Windows, or macOS (I do not condone unlicensed macOS VMs on Unraid). With the enterprise virtualization technology, it was possible to easily add one or multiple full desktop operating systems to an Unraid server as a virtual machine (VM). The way that problem was solved was by integrating enterprise virtualization technology into the Unraid operating system. Unraid should no longer be powering just network-attached storage, but also desktop computers. Unraid doesn’t care what hard drives you useĪlmost 10 years later, the developers of Unraid took on their next big challenge. Unraid uses a non-standard software RAID and doesn’t require any expensive add-in cards to work. An Unraid NAS doesn’t care what CPU you use (as long as it is x86 and 64-bit capable) or what size, brand, and speed your hard drives are. Luckily for us users of Unraid today, it was found and subsequently shared with the world. While RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology was available to store, access, and reliably backup significant amounts of data, it came with many restrictions that were implausible for the average consumer.Ī new, hardware-agnostic approach for network-attached storage (NAS) had to be found. The engineer’s goal was, as with many side projects, to solve one of their own problems. Unraid started its journey in the early 2000s as a software engineer’s side project. Unraid for Network-Attached Storage (NAS).The goal is simply to let you answer the question: What is Unraid? Table of Contents What you do with your Unraid machine might differ greatly from how I use mine. Please remember that there is no best way of doing things. Depending on what you need from your Unraid build, you might go with a combination of all three possibilities or just using a single one.
This article will guide you through all three use-cases of Unraid. Using a hypervisor to partition resources to virtualized guests.
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