March 26, 20251 yr I've got a usb set up, but nothing else done. I've booted UnRaid and logged in on a workstation browser. The question is where to go from here? My goal here is to run a NAS for shared files on my network, as well as some VM and container apps. I don't really care about having a parity raid. I've got two 256gb SSD's, a 2 TB Hybird drive (ssd + spinning) and a 12 TB spinning disk drive. i7-7700 with 32 GB RAM system. Any important data will be backed up on my workstations. Apps I want to run include a Jellyfin media server, a common network disk drive for video production storage, Home Assistant, security camera recording. This is mostly a learning experience for me. In the future, I'll move an i9 workstation to the server when 4GB ssd's get well below $100. Then I'll make a serious SSD based array and run parity drives. So we're probably talking 2 years. By that time, I hope to know UnRaid very intimately. Question is how to go about setting these drives up? I'm happy to sacrifice the two small ssd's for OS and parity purposes (just to keep the no parity warnings off). I could also set up two usb drives to get rid of the parity warning issue. Can I partition the 12tb drive and use the partitions for VM and containers? Thanks to all who reply.
March 26, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, medic5678 said: Then I'll make a serious SSD based array and run parity drives SSDs in the array cannot be trimmed. Put HDD(s) in array, without parity if you want. Do security camera to HDD since it won't really benefit from speed. Put SSDs in a pool, zfs or btrfs mirror. Put Dockers/VMs there for performance, and so array disk(s) can spin down. Later you can have more pools of SSDs. Lots of different options with zfs and btrfs. Video production might be better on the hybrid for now, or on some SSD pool 1 hour ago, medic5678 said: I'm happy to sacrifice the two small ssd's for OS and parity purposes (just to keep the no parity warnings off). I could also set up two usb drives to get rid of the parity warning issue. None of the OS is installed to any of your storage. Unraid is kept in archives on the boot flash. It is unpacked fresh from those archives at each boot, into RAM, and runs completely in RAM. Think of it as firmware. I don't know what you mean by "parity warning".
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