Unraid Guides: The Ultimate Home NAS Solution

On Unraid Guides, I bring you guides not just on Unraid, but also on applications you might be running on it. These include the popular Plex, Sonarr, and Radarr. I will also be sharing my thought on hardware, such as computer cases and graphics cards.

Unraid is a Linux-based operating system optimized for network-stored media files. In my opinion, Unraid is the best solution for a personal do-it-yourself network-attached storage (NAS) build at home. While it isn’t free, it does have a bunch of very useful features which make Unraid worth the price you pay for it.

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Jackett | Radarr | Sonarr | Torrent

How to add all indexers from Jackett to Sonarr and Radarr

This guide will show you how to add all indexers from Jackett to both Sonarr and Radarr in a single step instead of having to add each indexer individually.

Btrfs | Filesystem | ReiserFS | XFS

What is the best filesystem for Unraid?

When setting up an Unraid system you can choose between the ReiserFS, XFS, and Btrfs filesystems. But which filesystem is best for Unraid?

Expansion card | SAS HBA | SATA

Don’t use cheap PCIe SATA expansion cards with Unraid (get a cheap HBA instead)

I don’t recommend using cheap PCIe SATA expansion cards with Unraid. A cheap HBA will give you everything you need without any issues.

Corsair | G.Skill | HyperX

How much RAM does Unraid need?

How much RAM your Unraid requires depends on your use-case. This article guides you through the different options and tells you, what to look out for.

What is Unraid?

Before getting started with an Unraid build, you might be thinking to yourself: What even is Unraid and how does it function?

GTX 1650 SUPER | Nvidia

GTX 1650 SUPER is the budget king for Plex transcoding

At ~$170 the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER can handle up to 14 1080p to 720p hardware transcodes. It is the budget king for Plex transcoding.

Fractal Design

The Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL might be the best case for Unraid

Choosing the Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL over the Define 7 XL might make your Unraid system ever so slightly louder but it will be to the benefit of keeping all components cooler.

Backup

The 3-2-1 backup strategy – Protect your photography from ransomware attacks

In terms of photography a ransomware attack could be devastating. Image all of your photos suddenly being inaccessible.

Backup | Bvckup 2 | Windows Software

Bvckup 2 review: The easiest backup tool ever

Backup 2 is the simplest unidirectional file synchronization you’ll have ever seen and yet it still packs a punch.

A hard drive used in Unraid
TrueNAS CORE

Why Unraid beats TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS) for personal use

FreeNAS and Unraid work in fundamentally different ways and in this article I’m going to be telling you why, in my personal opinion, you should go with Unraid.

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