I need a little advice. I'm slowing doing some work on my server and need some guidance on the following.

My server currenty has 5 data drives in the array and 2 unassigned devices. I was thinking of creating a new device pool and moving the unassigned drives to that pool. I want to keep them totally separate from the array.

Unassigned device 1 is called UnassignedDisk and has a share called Media with 2 folders below it.

\temp movies

\temp tv shows

The other unassigned device is call DelugeDN and below that are the following folders

\deluge

below deluge folder I have

\Completed

\downloads

\torrents

I don't require any backup or parity for these drives. Deluge downloads and then copies over to the other unassigned device for movies and tv shows, all are temp and deleted after viewing. Hence why I don't need any redundancy.

Question is..if I create a device pool with these two devices,

1. Can I create a device pool without any redundancy?

2. After I create the device pools, I belive I then need to go into each docker config for radar, sonar, deluge etc and modify the paths to point to the new pool devices. Is that correct?

3. I'm assuming if I do this, I lose the current data on the unassigned devices. If so I assume I could first copy the data off to my array, then when done, copy the data back. Is that correct?

Lastly, if I am doing the above, is it worth doing or should I just leave the devices as unassigned devices?

11 hours ago, DigitalDivide said:

Can I create a device pool without any redundancy?

Yes, you can create a single device pool for each.

11 hours ago, DigitalDivide said:

After I create the device pools, I belive I then need to go into each docker config for radar, sonar, deluge etc and modify the paths to point to the new pool devices. Is that correct?

Correct

11 hours ago, DigitalDivide said:

I'm assuming if I do this, I lose the current data on the unassigned devices.

Assuming they are using one of the Unraid-supported filesystems, they can be imported, keeping the data.

Hi thanks,

Just a clarification. you indicated create a single device pool for each. I'm assuming that means create a new pool with only one disk, then do the same for the other. Am I not able to create a pool with two devices without any parity/raid or duplication...if you know what I mean..?

2 minutes ago, DigitalDivide said:

Am I not able to create a pool with two devices without any parity/raid or duplication...if you know what I mean..?

You CAN do that, but you would lose all current contents.

Using 2 pools was suggested as then the contents can remain intact so you only need to modify the container paths.

1 minute ago, itimpi said:

You CAN do that, but you would lose all current contents.

Using 2 pools was suggested as then the contents can remain intact so you only need to modify the container paths.

Ok got it! Thanks