medic5678

I've got a usb set up, but nothing else done. I've booted UnRaid and logged in on a workstation browser. The question is where to go from here? My goal here is to run a NAS for shared files on my network, as well as some VM and container apps. I don't really care about having a parity raid. I've got two 256gb SSD's, a 2 TB Hybird drive (ssd + spinning) and a 12 TB spinning disk drive. i7-7700 with 32 GB RAM system. Any important data will be backed up on my workstations. Apps I want to run include a Jellyfin media server, a common network disk drive for video production storage, Home Assistant, security camera recording. This is mostly a learning experience for me. In the future, I'll move an i9 workstation to the server when 4GB ssd's get well below $100. Then I'll make a serious SSD based array and run parity drives. So we're probably talking 2 years. By that time, I hope to know UnRaid very intimately. Question is how to go about setting these drives up? I'm happy to sacrifice the two small ssd's for OS and parity purposes (just to keep the no parity warnings off). I could also set up two usb drives to get rid of the parity warning issue. Can I partition the 12tb drive and use the partitions for VM and containers? Thanks to all who reply.

For what it's worth, the PNY USB 2.0 drives Amazon is selling (3 for 10.00) work fine. Installer likes them.

Maybe. But why go through this? Making your system dependent on a particular physical USB drive just doesn't make sense. Unraid has a great reputation among users and I'm hoping this is just a bump in the road. Can you pleasee elaborate on WHY this is necessary vs. why no one else is doing this? I'm happy to pay the license fee for ease of use, but this is a bit of a kick in the nuts to get started.

Let's be very frank here. It's just extremely poor business. Surely they can come up with a better model that would avoid this. I'm a buyer, waiting for a compatible usb stick (Sandisk won't work). For the life of me, I can't figure out WHY they're doing it this way. No one else in the industry does. If this USB drive (PNY) doesn't work, I'll give up on Unraid before I ever start it. What a shame.