July 9, 20223 yr Hi there, very new to this, apologies in advance if something I've said does not make sense/if there is a better way to do things. I'm planning on buying a SABRENT 10-Bay enclosure, a few Exos HDs to drop into the enclosure, connect to my M1 Mac Mini via USB 3.2, and using unraid in single parity. This setup will mostly be used to allow my family to watch blurays that I've ripped in remux on plex. Right now I just have a bunch of external HDs connected to my m1 mac mini, and it's a huge eyesore and a mess. Any issues with my expected setup? My main concern is I question if it's a good idea to set up raid using USB 3.2, as I know sometimes USB will randomly disconnect... I know I can prob get a server rack or something like that, but prefer the Sabrent enclosure for its looks, because there's no space to put this out of the way, and it will be in plain view. Thank you for your time! Edited July 9, 20223 yr by seepbeep15 grammer
July 9, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, seepbeep15 said: M1 Mac Mini I don't believe Unraid has an M1 version, X86-64 only at this time.
July 9, 20223 yr Author 6 minutes ago, JonathanM said: I don't believe Unraid has an M1 version, X86-64 only at this time. Thanks! I thought rosetta 2 was pretty good at handling x86 and 64 programs? Hmm, looks like I'm going to need to look into this a bit more
July 9, 20223 yr Community Expert 3 minutes ago, seepbeep15 said: thought rosetta 2 was pretty good at handling x86 and 64 programs? I think this requires MacOS to be loaded, and is not built into the hardware. Unraid runs at the bare metal level so MacOS would not be present.
July 9, 20223 yr Author 23 minutes ago, itimpi said: I think this requires MacOS to be loaded, and is not built into the hardware. Unraid runs at the bare metal level so MacOS would not be present. Ah, right. Forgot about the part needing unraid to be on a USB drive. Thank you very much for your response.
July 9, 20223 yr Author 28 minutes ago, JonathanM said: You can easily set up a trial USB of Unraid and see if it will boot. Good point. I'll just give this a try and see what happens, before I buy anything.
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