dylanarts

Perfect! Thank you! I just wanted a concrete answer to that.

Hello! This is my first time building a storage server at all. I have a fair amount of Linux and cloud experience, but I have just never had time to build a NAS until now. My brother (a photo and video guy who generates hundreds of GBs of footage per shoot) recently showed me how he was storing everything on a pile of SD cards. That was when I was convinced I needed to build a NAS, and he was on board too. I scrapped together some parts I already had and bought everything else I needed. Currently, the NAS has 3x 8TB drives, 2x 2TB drives, 3x 3TB drives, and a 1TB SSD for cache. I wanted to make two SMB shares (one for me and one for him) and allocate the amount of storage he bought to his and the amount of storage I bought to mine. (we split the cost of one of the 8TBs for the parity drive). However, I don't seem to see that as an option in the shares section. Here is my question: If I assign the actual drives to the shares in the user share settings, will all the data still have the benefits of being in a NAS? I don't want one of us to loose data because I misconfigured the shares and then one drive failure looses data.