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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 8 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

Thanks

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[–] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 8 months ago

Please elaborate. I have only found that all drives will be treated as they would have the smallest capacity in the bunch.

There is some manual workarounds, which is would not call „can do it fine“

Or am I missing something?