Unraid in a German Educational Institute

Our educational association, the Schülerforschungszentrum Südwürttemberg e.V. has 8 locations in southern Germany and offers students the opportunity to take free courses in STEM and realize their own ideas in a small workshop with 3D printers, CNC milling machines, and everything else you need. While looking for a solution to store project files and exchange files, we discovered Unraid.

Unraid also offers us the ability to run applications and even virtual machines in addition to a pure storage solution! Both features are used by us.So besides data storage, we also run a GitLab server, a PiHole, Unifi controller, VPN, and much more.

With virtual Windows environments where CAD applications have been installed, even our old laptops can be used for 3D modeling via Parsec. Also, Windows applications that require many presets can be used independently of the PC. For example, control software to create G-code for CNC machines, 3D printers, and laser engravers.

In addition, Unraid offers us the possibility to give the students a platform to try out and test self-written, small server applications without having to resort to special, expensive infrastructure.

All in all, we can say that Unraid is the best solution for us. It is very easy to manage everything and add new applications! It allows us to get the most out of our server!

We wanted to give a big thanks to Unraid for sponsoring licenses for us to use in an educational setting!
 

-Marc Panse
SFZ Instructor