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At the moment, I am still using my Intel NUC for Unraid: One internal drive (KINGSTON_SUV500MS240G) as cachedrive and 1 external USB SSD (Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_1TB) A very small set-up (see attached .jpeg) but I am very happy with it. I could not do more, because...well, it is a NUC 🙂 Today (or tomorrow), my new hardware will arrive. This will be a PC, instead of a NUC. I would like to receive some advise. Important: I am still NEW to this and not a heavy user (yet), so please bare with me 🙂 Just running 1 Home Assistant VM and a few containers (Adguard, Zigbee2MQTT etc.). Furthermore it is more about storing notebook backup and I want to implement Photoprism as an alternative for Google Photo's. Of course, I want to do more in the near future, but that was impossibble with my NUC. What would you advise to do: 1) I will need a new cache drive I guess, what would be the best choice? I will have the following slots available: M.2 (PCI-e 3.0 x2 + SATA) 2x M.2 (PCI-e 4.0 x4), 4x SATA-600 (According to the specs of my motherboard: ASRock B660 Pro RS) 2) Furthermore, would I really need a Partity disk now? I haven't at the moment. I could add that later, so I've read. 3) I will need at least one disk for storing data. I could just add my current SSD disk into my new PC I guess? These are really questions for newbies, I know, but I couldn't find a proper topic through all these hundreds of topics. As my new server is coming without any disks, I need to have some quite fast 🙂 What type of disks are good start with, looking at my motherboard specs? I will keep using the system mostly for setting up Docker Containers and Home Asssistant VM's, will want to have a Windows PC as VM, and of course as a backup tool for myself and family members. In the near future I guess I will fill the SATA-600 slots, for storage I don't need every minute of the day. I will have this hardware (with Intel Core i5 12500 Alder Lake Socket 1700 Hexacore 6 performance cores 3.0Ghz/4.6Ghz) today and therefore I am looking for "what drives to buy" Thanks a lot for your advice for his beginner, so I can look for the best affordable disks as soon as possible. After that, I will need to figure out how I can migrate my current environment instead of starting all over...

I have it on one of my shares...But don't know how to reach them, since my shares aren't visible. Oh, and my NUC has only USB 3.0 ports ... So, if I can find my flash backup, what do you advice to do with it? Is the error related to that? Because I don't think (assume) that the flashdrive died in just 1.5 year? Thanks

Yes, for sure a LOT. But...what does it mean? Any idea? Don't know how to solve that.

Good afternoon, I'm experiencing a "ENOFLASH 3" error (Error accessing your physical usb boot device). I've had it before, a few weeks ago I guess, but a restart solved it (for a while). Searched the forums about this error, saw several topics about the same error, but I'm having a hard time to conclude what to do. Who can help me out? I'm not an experienced user, running Unraid with a Basic license for 1,5 year or so. My VM is still running, I can login, but no shares visible and no dockers visible. Attached a diagnostic .zip file , which I just created. What to do? tower-diagnostics-20220131-1421.zip