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Need some advice... (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ffimmano@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I recently purchased a Dell R730. My plan was to run a few VMs, and use the 8 drive bays as a a large RAID array. I have been getting to know Proxmox, which i dont really have any complaints about, over the past few months. I currently have 4 8TB drives set up in a ZFS pool in a TrueNAS core VM. It has become full. Last night I went to expand the pool capacity and I find out that its not possible to just add a drive. So now ive been reading about UnRaid, which has that capability. I think i know the right thing to do, but i wanted to hear other peoples opinions on the matter. Should i start fresh with a bare metal unraid install, or should i run unraid as a VM in Proxmox? Im kind of disappointed that truenas pools cannot be easily expanded as i just spent a few months working kinks out with proxmox and truenas

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[–] ffimmano@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Really? I don’t know how I feel about that. I guess that’s ok? It seems many people use unraid and like it. If I installed it as a vm would it run off a thumb drive? I made the decision to switch to bare metal unraid as it seems to fit my use case better than truenas. I’m currently moving everything to my older server.