Unraid 7 Full Walkthrough & New Features Breakdown

The Uncast Show

Grab yourself a coffee, tea, or beer 🍻 and get ready to dive deep into everything new in Unraid 7! This update brings massive changes, including no more mandatory Unraid array, ZFS improvements, a redesigned dashboard and other UI enhancements, and big upgrades to Docker & VM support! Whether you're upgrading or setting up fresh, this guide has you covered.
Note: Portions of this guide are best viewed on Youtube!

📌 Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:50 OS Upgrade Tips and Best Practices.
06:00 ReiserFS is no more. Learn how to move to other file systems like xfs.
08:10 Use mover to empty and move data so that disks can be reformatted.
13:50 No 'Unraid Array' necessary now in version 7 -- perfect for SSD/NVMEs.
19:10 A look at different ZFS RAID levels and what they all mean.
24:25 Advantages of Compression in a Zpool.
25:25 Unraid ZFS subpools, aka auxiliary vdevs: What they all mean and how to use them properly.
35:30 Setting up a fresh install on Unraid 7
39:10 Unraid 7's brand new Dashboard, UI tweaks, and new settings
49:12 New Unraid 7 Docker and VM features
1:11:55 Next video tease
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Chapters

1. Unraid 7 Full Walkthrough & New Features Breakdown (00:00:00)

2. Unraid 7 Upgrade and Disk Maintenance" (00:00:03)

3. Storage Pool Configuration in Unraid 7 (00:13:46)

4. Understanding RAID Z3 and Subpools (00:23:47)

5. Deduplication and New Unraid Features (00:32:46)

6. New Features in Unraid 7 (00:40:58)

7. New Features in Unraid 7 VMs (00:50:31)

8. Advanced VM Features in Unraid 7 (01:00:55)

9. Snapshot Management and New Hardware (01:10:45)