Hello all,

 

I am a very inexperienced user and have had Unraid for a few days (not set up yet). After much reading and based on the importance of my data, I want to use ZFS. Of course I realize that ZFS is not a backup, I always do offset backups as well. But the data integrity is crucial. For example, I also have ECC Ram for that reason.

 

I could also wait for 6.12, but I would already like to start and hope to learn something in the process.

 

The situation for me is that I have about 8 TB of important data and 10 TB with movies etc.

How would I set up Unraid to migrate to the "official" ZFS path in the short and long term with the upcoming changes (ZFS support) or to use ZFS in the best possible way?

 

In this Youtube video:

 

I have the following disks: 4x 14TB HDD, 2x 1TB NVME SSD
If I go by the video, the SSD's would be useless, right? For this reason, I thought of the following:

 

I create Unraid normally with a parity disk and create a 10TB ZFS pool for the VMs/ and the important data. For the rest i just use BTRFS.

 

I hope it becomes reasonably clear what my question is: I actually want to use ZFS as much as possible, but my understanding is that I can't (yet) use a ZFS array with all my disks, not even with 6.12 but only sometime in the future. The alternatie would be to use a complete ZFS pool but then i wouldn't be able to use my SSD's.

 

I'm just looking for the best middle ground and am hoping for suggestions.

 

Thanks for reading until here!

 

Kind regards,

 

You can create a zfs pool with the plugin and will then be able to import it with 6.12, in the meantime the pool would be outside the user shares though.