To preface, my experience with unraid and VMs is just the last couple weeks that I've been working to set up a home server for a security camera system. I'm running a VM with Home Assistant OS inside of Unraid. Within the VM, I'm using frigate to record
Go to unraid.net/download and download the USB creator app for your Windows or Mac computer. Connect the USB drive or data drives or M.2 drives that you want to use for the unRAID OS to boot from. Connect the USB boot drive to your old QNAP NAS or any other NAS or PC with ...
UPDATED 5/7/2024:OnWindows 11(and Windows 10), if you have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to share files across the network with solutions like unRAID or TrueNAS, you may encounter different Windows Security warnings when opening files. For example, when moving files between folders, you m...
Assuming you followed all the steps properly, the TrueNAS Scale server should be up and running, and you’ll be able to access the SMB share without any issues. Alternatively, you might want to try out theiSCSI protocolif you want to map the NAS drive as a local disk instead of a netw...
We’ll go over what Unraid is, what hardware we can use. We’ll also go over the installation process and the initial configuration.
Truenas and unraid are much more secure because they are not ever going to reach out to the internet… they don’t have web browsers, they are Linux based and not windows based, etc etc. But this is not really how NAS’s get compromised, they get compromised by other devices on your ...
Building your own Network-Attached Storage can be a fun experience. Not only do you get to customize the hardware per your storage needs, but you also get the option to experiment with differentNAS-centric operating systems. WhileTrueNAS ScaleandUnraidare the most popular options in the hardcore...
While there are better solutions for setting up a NAS, such as Unraid, TrueNAS, and OpenMediaVault, sometimes these are too complicated for some users. They also mean giving up your device to run purely as a NAS. Luckily, there are other super straightforward solutions you can use to set ...
bliss needs music files to work on. You need to have copied your music library onto your unRAID box.Here’s how to add music to your unRAID machine, if you haven’t already done this:Click the Shares entry in the unRAID menu. Click Add Share. The Share name should be somethin...
If you have used the USB for other things previously, there is a chance that the drive has existing partitions in place. For that, the quickest way to completely remove any partitions is to open up the bottom-left windows system menu as normal, and then just typediskpartand open the comm...