Cheap old hardware can be found for next to nothing on second-hand sites and are perfect for testing Unraid due to its low system requirements. For a low-cost and low-power network-attached storage, you might as well hook up a hard drive to your router’s USB port. You can forget about smoothly running advanced operating systems in a virtual machine on a Raspberry Pi, no matter the host OS. If what you are after is an easy way of running Docker containers on a Raspberry Pi, you are better off using Raspbian. The Raspberry Pi has no SATA ports, limiting it to external hard drives or adapters, and until the Raspberry Pi 4 arrived, the network performance was abysmal due to the Ethernet port sharing its bandwidth with the USB ports. Why even run Unraid on a Raspberry Pi?Įvery time I see the question asked, I ask myself why anyone would even want to run Unraid on a Raspberry Pi. Even with Apple dropping Intel in favour of their in-house ARM chips, x86 systems aren’t even close to their deathbed yet. While the ARM architecture is growing in popularity, and some have already started development of ARM server chips, it will take years before we see them in the hands of individual customers. Considering only a handful of advanced users would be purchasing Unraid for ARM, this is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Would it be possible for the Unraid developers to make the operating system ARM compatible? Of course, but not without a lot of work. Unraid is compiled for x86 systems only, namely those from Intel and AMD. Unfortunately, there is no way of installing Unraid on any ARM-compatible CPU, such as the one found in the Raspberry Pi. Surely, the hardware it uses would be powerful enough for Unraid, right? Unraid has love for x86 only, not ARM Considering the latest hardware revision, in the form of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, has a decent quad-core processor, up to 8 GB of RAM, and, for the first time ever, proper gigabit Ethernet, it does beg the question: Can Unraid run on a Raspberry Pi? After all, the Raspberry Pi foundation has started selling the Raspberry Pi 400 as a quasi desktop computer.
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