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Thanks for the response, trurl. I get the os usb and ram part of it. The part Im having difficulty with is the pool / parity and array detail. The end goal I have is to use the 2 4tb drives mentioned simply as a movie storage and if it can be done without any redundency that works just fine for me. This machine, in its configuration, is limited to 3 m.2 slots internally. The os USB is fine as there is no alternative, however if an idditional drive is needed to "start everything up" could that data disk be the 3rd m.2? Sure I would swap it for a lower volume m.2 if thats the case. Your mention of the needed data disk in the array, would this also be where docker container data should be saved? thanks again

Hey guys. Been trialing unraid for a couple days now and decided to move from a virtualized OMV to Unraid bare metal. Im using a Lenovo tiny (p350) with 2x 4tb m.2's (samsung 990's) and a single 1tb m.2 (samsung oem). Prior, I was using the 1tb drive as the os drive and the 2 4tb's in a 8tb stripe within OMV for my movie (mkv) storage that is accessed by multiple ATV's throughout the house. The primary purpose of this machine will be simply for NAS share for the movies along with a handfull of docker containers (sabnzb, rust desk, Adguard) Prior to looking into a diy solution I used synology machines and always 2 bay's using raid0. My main goal was to get faster speeds and with an all flash machine. The OMV machine ill be migrating from is nice and snappy, movies instantly play and can seek to different parts of a movie without any delay. My main question is what would the best practice for my hdd setup with this machine be? Is a 2 disk striped array possible? Would I need to add another 4tb m.2 to use one as parity? Is a cache drive needed if already using nvme's for storage? Is there a perfered format / file system using unraid to perserve the life of this storage type? Thanks!