Greycells

You may regret saying this! 🙂

Thank you - good to know which plugins to start with.

Ahh, beg your pardon, I thought you meant unraid CLI commands.

I'm less concerned about 'suspicious' (have been using OS since... far too long ago) than about incompatibility with the unraid core updates. This is a box that I want to build & forget (except for updates).

As you said (later), the wiki is a little challenging - would you mind pointing me to the appropriate commands documentation?

Many thanks for your swift reply - I guess my question would be better phrased as 'Can I use a non-parrity protected drive in the same unraid system as 3 drive parity protected group?'. From your answer it looks like the Unassigned Devices plugin will enable what I need but it's not possible with vanilla unraid? I'm slightly wary of relying on a third party plugin (that is recommended to be sourced from a 134 page forum post!). From here: https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/UnRAID_Plugins_for_V6 to the two forum posts below:

I have a four bay Microserver. I'd like one drive (non-RAID) to be dedicated to CCTV storage (running Shinobi in Docker) and the remaining three drive bays (RAID) to be used for NAS. Is this configuration possibly with unraid? The CCTV will be running 24/7 but only recording motion and the NAS will be low use (SOHO).