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Maintenance is a word that can strike a chord in even the most seasoned administrators; it is also the bane of my existence. Sometimes we spend countless hours maintaining something for very little return.

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Since I built my original media server running Windows 10 I've been taking notes from the homelab community, and am a member of a Discord server started by some friends and former coworkers of mine centered around the topic which has opened by mind to the possibility of running Linux fulltime instead. I had tried this route initially setting up my previous server but was not comfortable with running Docker in that way at the time. Thinking back to my university days I knew it was possible to do, I just didn't have the level of confidence in troubleshooting that I knew I needed. After soliciting some advice in this endeavor from a few of the folks in the Discord, they all pointed me at something I had heard of while reading conversations but had been unfamiliar with until now: [unRAID](https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/what-is-unraid/).

On paper, unRAID is one of those pieces of software that has all the features I've always wanted but never had the skills to put together into a single package. If you don't know, it's a linux operating system purpose-built for NAS-focused machines with RAID. It's popularity stems from its very large community of users, it has application support by way of Docker containers, a virtual machine manager, and developmental support for it through a [paid license structure](https://unraid.net/pricing). It's [very easy](https://old.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/16o4bvs/unraid_guide_for_noobs_made_by_a_noob/) to setup as it boots off a USB stick and runs entirely in RAM when it is operating. It even saves its own settings back to the flash drive so that in the event you need to remove the drive, all is not lost (however the drives in the array will be unreadable without your unRAID config loaded).
On paper, unRAID is one of those pieces of software that has all the features I've always wanted but never had the skills to put together into a single package. If you don't know, it's a linux operating system purpose-built for NAS-focused machines with RAID. It's popularity stems from its very large community of users, it has application support by way of Docker containers, a virtual machine manager, and developmental support for it through a [paid license structure](https://unraid.net/pricing). It's [very easy](https://old.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/16o4bvs/unraid_guide_for_noobs_made_by_a_noob/) to setup as it boots off a USB stick and runs entirely in RAM when it is operating. It even saves its own settings back to the flash drive so that in the event you need to remove the drive, all is not lost (however the drives in the array shouldn't be read by an OS without your unRAID config loaded as you may risk data loss).

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