I tried Unraid for the FIRST time in 2024

I knew nothing about Unraid until today. I finally installed Unraid in my HomeLab on one of my servers. Is it any good? Does it live up to the hype? Let's find out in my candid walkthrough of Unraid as you see and hear my successes as well as my struggles.

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00:00 - Why Unraid?
00:55 - SPONSORED by YOU
01:18 - What is Unraid
01:46 - Installing Unraid
03:01 - First impressions, first boot
03:51 - My Goals
04:29 - Dark Mode
04:50 - Dashboard
05:58 - Build Array
07:31 - Cache Drives
08:03 - Network Shares
10:05 - Settings
11:32 - Adhoc Docker Containers
11:56 - App Store
12:40 - Installing Apps
14:21 - Getting Transcoding Working (or not)
16:55 - Creating a Virtual Machine
18:18 - Is Unraid Worth it??


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