spooknik

Hello! First time Unraid user and I am trying to determine the best setup for my drives. I have: (2) 16TB Seagate EXOS (2) 8TB Seagate Ironwolf (2) 1TB Samsung 970 EVO plus NVME SSD I would like to run Network share and some applications like Jellyfin, Docker and VMs Parity for each drive (16TB mirrors each other, and so forth) Cache (buffer?) for network sharing, to speed up reads and writes. ZFS if possible (Can it be on the main array?) Challenges: I am used to ZFS and would like to keep using it, I realize ZFS support is still early on Unraid but would it be possible to make a mirrored pool with my mechanical drives? I notice most people I have seen make a pool for ZFS, but can this be done on the array? I am too new to Unraid to know the implications of using a pool vs. the array. I notice you must have a disk in the array to start it, so if my mechanical drives go in a pool for ZFS, do my ssd's then go in the array? (I am a bit confused on this point) Sorry for the beginner questions, just trying to get to terms with Unraid 😊

Thanks, I'll give it a watch. I need to dive into the fundaments of how Unraid works. Yes, I know, but i'm not the type that likes to try out RCs until they are stable builds 😅 I am currently waiting for parts for my server build, so no rush on my end.

Nice, i'll just give it a shot then when 6.12 is stable released. Also great reminder about exporting first, made that mistake once. Okay, that makes senses. But basically since my existing ZFS pool is two sets of two mirrored drives, the self-heal will carry over.

Thanks for the info 👍 I suppose once 6.12 is released, I can just boot up a USB and try it out and see what the import will try to do. It should be non-destructive up to a point. How does Unraid's implementation of ZFS work then if there is no striping on the file system level. I mean, how does the "self healing" take place if there is no parity? I'm trying to read my way through 6.12RC patch notes and not getting the full picture. My plan was to run two Samsung 1tb NVME drives , I think that should cover my use case. Edit: These notes give some info about ZFS, it looks like you can make mirrors and so forth, but can you do that and use it as the primary storage?

Hello! I currently have a Debian server which is working great, but Unraid seems like an "easy button" solution to self hosting a lot of other apps and services which appeals to me. My server has 4 drives in a ZFS Pool that look like: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM storage ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD48W3X ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST8000VN004-2M2101_WSD2JDEZ ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR60Y8BQ ONLINE 0 0 0 ata-ST16000NM000J-2TW103_ZR59R39E ONLINE 0 0 0 So two 8tb disks in a mirror and two 16tb disks in a mirror to form one pool. Can I import this into Unraid and use this as my main array? I notice that one of the focuses of 6.12 but honestly I am very new to Unraid and just curious if this worth perusing. Currently I have around 14tb of data so it would be a huge hassle to back that up somewhere. I'd also like to run VMs, Jellyfin, and other docker sevices on Unraid, I assume i'll need some NVME drives in the mix as cache drives(?).