I Ran Out Of Space, Let's Build An UNRAID NAS!

Published: 17-03-2022
Tags: unraid, home server, network attached storage, seagate iron wolf, synology, seagate, silverstone ds380, amd a4 4400, amd a8, computing, videos, nas

I wanted to give a final push on a project that I'm really excited about and have been working on for almost a year which I never found time to finish, but I was very close to running out of space on my Synology NAS (so I guess I didn't have time to finish it again).

So for this unplanned part of The Eric Experiment, I decided to build an UNRAID NAS that should give me enough storage for the next.

References from the Video:

Unraid website: https://unraid.net/
About ZFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
About Reed-Solomon Error Correction Code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomonerrorcorrection
Linus Tech Tips Petabyte Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZFcrQTZ_E

Spaceinvader One Video about Krusader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSxiN2hr4I

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Background
1:31 - What I was using before
2:16 - What I chose to go with
2:31 - The parts I bought for the build
3:04 - Motherboard/Memory/CPU
4:25 - Build
7:13 - Get the Hard drives ready
7:37 - Preparing the UNRAID Flash drive
8:12 - A story about over-confidence.
9:07 - Turning the computer on (successfully) for the first time
9:30 - Initializing UNRAID
9:49 - Explaining how UNRAID works
12:29 - Setting up the Array
13:11 - Getting ready to move files over
18:09 - Installing the new processor
18:55 - Finish assemble
19:31 - Re-adding the parity drive
19:51 - Prepare the Synology Drives
20:46 - Zero the Synology Drives
21:17 - Adding the Synology Drives to the Array
23:09 - Outro

Click here to go to the Youtube Video.