Shorty1353

See, I think this is where I got confused when I assumed that the device doing the transcoding was also the device they were using to run UnRAID altogether. Oh well, I have opened an Amazon return for the enclosure I bought. I did read quite a few people saying they've had some degree of success with the QNAP TL-D800C, so I ordered one to see if it works. I figure if it doesn't I can just send it back and start figuring out an actual build with the internal SATA capabilities that I'd need. Worst case, I'm sure I can find a use for that little N100.

Do you have any recommendations for alternate ways that I could attach these disks to the Mini PC I'm running everything off of? It's a Beelink Mini S12 Pro, this model to be precise https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVFS94J5 I'm willing to order whatever I need to to have a functioning setup, just not really sure what my options would be otherwise.

I know that USB isn't ideal, but I wasn't sure how else I could make that N100 based mini PC work. I posted on the subreddit asking for advice before ordering the enclosure (as I was unaware of this forum) and my post was removed. Not opposed to returning the enclosure but I don't know how else I could make that device work. I was specifically recommended the S12 Pro as I was told the CPU was capable of 4 concurrent 4k transcodes, and I plan to run Jellyfin. Wondering if there are any workarounds or alternate methods that would work?

Hello everyone! I apologize if this question has been answered before, but I promise I did my best to search for answers and can't come up with anything. I'm trying to set up my array using a Beelink Mini S12 Pro as the brains (Alder Lake processor) using a external USB HDD enclosure (the "Syba 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappabe 2.5" 3.5" SATA Non Raid External USB 3.0 Enclosure" from Amazon to be specific. Inside of it I have 2 Seagate Exos X20 18tb drives. My plan was to use the internal NVMe drive (~500gb) as a cache, and use one of the 18tb's for parity and one for storage, with plans to expand to additional disks down the line. I was able to get Unraid installed and running, but I'm having an issue where only one of the external drives will be recognized. I've verified both drives are working independently. Currently I've turned off VT-d in the BIOS as I've read older posts that it can cause issues with drive identification, but it didn't solve my issue. Can anybody point me in the right direction as to what could be going wrong? Thank you all!