I'm hoping I'm asking this in the right place. I've been doing a lot of reading and can't find the answer I seek.

My business is video filming and editing, and i'm been growing my team from myself, to 2 of us. I have lots of data stored on locally connected RAID drives, which I now need to move over to a central file server that i recently built using lifetime Unraid on a little AMD machine and running Nextcloud—which is working. I can access the files via the web interface or using the Nextcloud virtual drive app on my Mac, which is on the same home network.

The storage location for the Nextcloud install is on a hdd plugged in via USB which i'm using for testing, this will later be 4 x 20TB hdd's that i'm in the process of initialising. The folder for the data is /mnt/nextcloud-storage/nextcloud-data/ and i am able to browse the files in unraid (ie. outside of nextcloud) and also on the mac as an SMB share - although no matter what i do i can only read, not write. I did set up a different share/folder just as a test, and in the case of that folder I was able to write from the mac. I think I achieved that by explicitly setting the folder permissions to write for the user I've set up. The challenge is that I don't want to be changing the Nextcloud folder permissions, I'm sure that would cause lots of issues.

My hope/goal is to access the Nextcloud data folder from my Mac with write capabilities because I have a lot of storage that needs to move from the Mac Thunderbay drives to the new Nextcloud 60TB RAID 5 array. Copying this over the virtual drive or web browser would take a lifetime. Also being a video editor, it would be helpful to have a faster access to the server - i don't mind moving a project to the local machine for the sake of editing but i'm just looking for a quicker way to initiate the copying back and forth. Would really appreciate and ideas or insights.

Thanks,

Sean.

3 hours ago, foilandwater said:

The storage location for the Nextcloud install is on a hdd plugged in via USB which i'm using for testing, this will later be 4 x 20TB hdd's that i'm in the process of initialising. The folder for the data is /mnt/nextcloud-storage/nextcloud-data/

How did you create this path?

/mnt/nextcloud-storage could be the path to an assigned pool named "nextcloud-storage", but it shouldn't be the path to an Unassigned Device. Is that USB device assigned to a pool named "nextcloud-storage"?

Thanks for the reply. Yes, exactly. The 1TB hdd was initially an unassigned device but i stopped the array and assigned/converted it to a pool called /mnt/nextcoud-storage - it was intially /mnt/disks/toshiba_white_hdd. I'm not sure whats the best or right way to do it but i think i followed a tutorial that let me to that. After doing that the drive is no longer available at /mnt/disks/toshiba_white_hdd

Edited September 5, 2025Sep 5 by foilandwater