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
Unraid runs from a USB drive if that impacts your decision.
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.