rthorntn

Thanks @guy.davis I'm planning to use the storage for Plex as well. I guess my main worry is how to manage a large JBOD, say I have 24 disks, I want to be able to keep an eye on their health, also mounting 24 disks individually and balancing the capacity would probably be a pita. Hence the JBOD array, 1 mount, good monitoring and the allocator evenly distributing the files across the 24 disks. Say I caught the Chia bug and went to 48 disks, thats a lot of admin. So I'm looking for something simple that lets me manage and monitor a heap of disks with minimal work. Cheers Richard

Thanks @guy.davis I'm new to Unraid but was liking the idea (one big file share with an allocation method setup) of creating an array for farming with no cache or parity, I wonder if what you've found throws a spanner in my works? If I was just going to use unassigned devices would there be any reason to pay for Unraid?