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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlexanderIanHall" data-source="post: 805595" data-attributes="member: 111305">I can't recall the original reason that I looked at UnRaid. I did see it mentioned on this or another forum at the time I was researching so decided to try it out as all you need to do is copy the unRaid files onto a USB thumb drive and you're good to go, it really is that easy. As I had a positive initial experience I then paid the license fee to be able to increase the number of HDDs up to 20+ HDDs. One of the big positives about unRaid compared to some of the competing products is the ease of expansion. e.g.1) You can just add in new HDDs and they can be different sizes, i.e. you can create an array of 250MB, 500MB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB HDDs all together and still have resilience via the parity drive.2) You can start of with 3 or 4 HDDs and then just add in additional ones as your needs grow3) You can easily replace a lower capacity drive with a higher one or just add the higher capacity one as well.I don't believe FreeNAS has such flexibilityYou'll find posts of some people reporting performance issues and you'll find posts of people with no performance issues. I can say that I copied a 36GB file from my unRaid server to my local Windows 7 PC and averaged 75 MB/sec sustained, this is more than enough to play a native BluRay ISO in high definition. The only performance issue I have had was a 'stuttering' sometimes when playing BluRay ISOs over the network. This ended up being caused by VirtualCloneDrive (used to mount the ISOs) and was fixed by switching to DaemonToolsLite.The biggest question at present with UnRaid is whether to go for v4.7 or to try the 5.13 beta release. The advantage of the v5 release is that it supports 3TB HDDs and has a v3 linux kernel (among other things). At present I am still on v4.7 as my server is fairly critical.hthAlex</blockquote>

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