Network-Attached Storage

Where many competitors have focused on creating an appliance offering, unRAID has taken a hardware-agnostic approach to network-attached storage.  The benefit is unRAID’s ability to boot on nearly any 64-bit capable system and manage an array of disks that vary in size, speed, brand, and protocol.  In addition, by eliminating the use of traditional RAID-based technologies, we can scale on-demand by adding more disks and without needing to rebalance data.

unRAID’s storage capabilities are broken down into three components:  the array, the cache, and the user share file system.