January 19, 20251 yr Hi! I just installed unraid for first time using the trial. I am a bit lost about how to setup my hdd. If someone could give me direction it would great! 1. I have 2 14Tb, I will use them for movie, photo, media in general. I wanted to use 1 and the other one as a fail safe. So if one die I will not lose my data. 2. I have 2 small 80Gb hdd that I want to use for storing personal files. Again I'd like one of the drive to be a fail safe, a copy of the other. Plus, all the files on the 2 80Gb would need to be encrypted. 3. I have a 500Gb ssd to use as a cache I would like to use for the media drive (14Tb). 4. I plan to setup a VM to run my already bare metal HAOS. My HAOS is installed on a small laptop hdd. Can I plug the hdd and use it for loading (booting) HAOS in the VM ? 5. I also have a 4Tb drive for my frigate integration in HAOS. Can I plug it too and make it available to the VM so frigate write to it ? 6. There is too many file systems I do not know what to pick too! All my hdds passed hddsentinel surface test. I hope I made my post as clear as possible, English is not my primary language sorry. Thank you all!
January 19, 20251 yr Community Expert You are asking for a lot of information. I suggest some YouTube. Look for Spaceinvaderone. He has some really good starter tutorials; I think based on 6.9 but still really relevant. I recall another video for a docker container called home assistant in a box (or something like that) which looked really simple. I'm sure there are videos on frigate setups too.
January 19, 20251 yr Community Expert 8 hours ago, Pat_J said: I have 2 small 80Gb hdd that I want to use for storing personal files. You can use a zfs mirror for that. 8 hours ago, Pat_J said: I have 2 14Tb, I will use them for movie, photo, media in general. I wanted to use 1 and the other one as a fail safe. Do you think you may want to expand this in the forceable future? If yes, assign them to the array as parity and disk1, if not I would also recommend a zfs mirror. 8 hours ago, Pat_J said: I have a 500Gb ssd to use as a cache I would like to use for the media drive (14Tb). You can use that in a pool as primary storage for the shares going to the 14TB disks, either if they end up being used on the array or as another pool
January 19, 20251 yr Author 2 hours ago, Veah said: You are asking for a lot of information. I suggest some YouTube. Look for Spaceinvaderone. He has some really good starter tutorials; I think based on 6.9 but still really relevant. I recall another video for a docker container called home assistant in a box (or something like that) which looked really simple. I'm sure there are videos on frigate setups too. Wow, there is a lot of information on Spaceinvader one channel! Thank you. 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: You can use a zfs mirror for that. Do you think you may want to expand this in the forceable future? If yes, assign them to the array as parity and disk1, if not I would also recommend a zfs mirror. You can use that in a pool as primary storage for the shares going to the 14TB disks, either if they end up being used on the array or as another pool Thank you for the information, this will give me a starting point ! With JorgeB information and Veah youtube channel recommendation I should be ok to attain my goals! Thanks again!
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