I am investigating a NAS software solution for my home network, mainly to offload my download directory and media storage.  Looking to replace or supplement my D-link DNS-343.  Right now I am testing with the free server, if it goes well and I can wrap my head around a couple of things I will end up with the mid-level version.  I really like the JBOD'ish feel of this server.

 

I have 2 data drives right now and want to create MyMedia across them.  Do I need to build the file structure across both drives manually or do I build the first and it duplicates on the second when needed? 

 

Admitted Noob to this product.  It did replicated the directory for me, it appears when I moved more data to it than one drive could hold.

 

I have a share currently for MyMedia and under that I have Movies, TV, Music, Pictures, Slasher and Adult.  I get that the first level is always a share, but I have young kids that I do not want to see the second level Adult and Slasher directories.  Is there a way do make this happen?  It appears that I can't make a share based on a directory below first level that is less inclusive of users and it appears that I can't make a first level share that does not give all users read level access.  Is there something that I am missing that allows me to tighten down the share permissions?  BTW, all SMB stuff.

 

Follow-up:  I moved my adult directory to the root of one drive and made it a hidden share.  It still shows up in the disk shares, is that normal? 

 

I have spent several hours reading about sharing and such on unRaid and I  just do not get it.  I like the idea of split levels, but again do I need to build the exact same structure on each drive?

 

Thanks Matt

Mmmm.. You could benefit from some extra reading, but I understand there is a lot of info around:

 

1) You do not build a directory structure on the drives, what you need to do is enable user-shares. With user shares data will be spread over all disks you allow it to (default: all data drives)

 

2) Unraid does permissions, create a "kids" account and a "parent" account, create seperate shares for your categories and do not give the kids account access to your adult shares.

 

Play around with the options, there is a lot in there !

Thanks for the response, I really want this to work...  I really like it, have run freenas and while it is good it does not have the JBOD feel and expansion ease.  I have found so much conflicting data that I am just trying to muddle through it all. 

 

It is performing ok, crap test hardware.  I am running on a P4 with 4 gig ram and 2 IDE data drives with a SATA parity drive and PCI bus gig network.  I get throughput from about 15MBs to 30MBs to and from the array.  I envision a final system to have either a Hudson board or an I3 with about 4 gig ram and several 1-2 TB SATA drives.  Hoping to do a mini-ITX or micro-ATX build, trying to decide how to attach enough drives to it, boards support 5 or 6 SATA connections and I could add an 8 port SAS card to support up to 8 more SATA drives... I think.  Still trying to figure out SAS and how it works.  It appears to me that you get a card and a cable that takes the SAS connector and breaks it out to 4 SATA drives.  Would hate to be wrong, expensive oops!

 

Thanks again, Matt

for the pr0n folder, you can export it as " yes hidden" with password security (also recommend that for the disk shares also).

 

I do not remember if you need the pay version for that option.