November 13, 20241 yr Hello! This is my first time building a storage server at all. I have a fair amount of Linux and cloud experience, but I have just never had time to build a NAS until now. My brother (a photo and video guy who generates hundreds of GBs of footage per shoot) recently showed me how he was storing everything on a pile of SD cards. That was when I was convinced I needed to build a NAS, and he was on board too. I scrapped together some parts I already had and bought everything else I needed. Currently, the NAS has 3x 8TB drives, 2x 2TB drives, 3x 3TB drives, and a 1TB SSD for cache. I wanted to make two SMB shares (one for me and one for him) and allocate the amount of storage he bought to his and the amount of storage I bought to mine. (we split the cost of one of the 8TBs for the parity drive). However, I don't seem to see that as an option in the shares section. Here is my question: If I assign the actual drives to the shares in the user share settings, will all the data still have the benefits of being in a NAS? I don't want one of us to loose data because I misconfigured the shares and then one drive failure looses data.
November 13, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution You can use the Include setting for each share to assign your drives to your share and his drives to his share. All would be protected by parity. Single parity will allow one failed disk, whatever share.
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