richardbaguley

Evening all, I am looking to build a “new” server with Unraid on an old Dell Inspiron I have available. Problem is, it only has space for 1HD in the case and I’d like to use more than one ;-). So, what is the best-supported way to do this? The specifics are as follows: The computer is a Dell Inspiron, vintage 2020-something. Intel-based, 32GB memory. It has three internal SATA 3.0 ports, but the chipset does not support sata port multipliers. USB 3.2 Gen 1 One PCIe 16X slot and one PCIe 1X slot, but I want to add 5/10gb Ethernet, which will need one of those One M.2 2230 slot vacant, but that’s designed for Wi-Fi: I’ve never tried using it for storage. Guessing it would work, but not certain. So, I want to add support for several hard drives, but given the often flaky nature of USB enclosures, I’d rather go with something more reliable than a USB enclosures if possible. Anybody got any suggestions more elegant than long SATA cables and sata power extensions sitting in a big pile on top of the case?

Hello all, I want to mount a directory from a remote server onto my server. I'm aware of unused devices and using them to mount remote SMB and NFS devices to the local system, but the wrinkle here is that my remote server doesn't support CIFS or NFS. It does support SSH, SSHFS and webdav, but not the ones that are directly supported. Any suggestions? That is obviously trivial in desktop distros like Ubuntu, but Unraid does not support SSHFS directly, I believe. I could use Rsync mount, but that's been unreliable in my experience. Thoughts?