Couple of Noob Questions for a basic NAS (SOLVED)

[Dad_Rage]

Sorry if these have been asked before; I searched for answers but couldn't find anything.

 

Here's my hardware: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/D7ZLV6

 

My uses are going to be your general basic NAS stuff; a media server (Plex), some cloud/file server stuff (NextCloud), a Discord music bot (Red Bot), and some auto media acquisition (Radarr/Sonarr). Going to be running them all as Docker containers.

 

Question 1: I have one Seagate 4TB Ironwolf SATA HDD. Do I need two HDDs to run unraid? I know I won't have a parity drive if I only have one drive in my system, but will unraid still run?

 

Question 2: Does the USB flash drive need to be 3.0/3.1 or does 2.0 work? Is there any benefit to a 3.0 drive? Also what's the preferred size (hardware recs on the FAQ are 404ing)? I'm looking at a 32GB Sandisk Cruzer Fit.

 

Thanks

Edited August 23, 2019 by Dad_Rage

[itimpi]

1.   You only need 1 drive

2.  USB2 is preferred as they tend to be more reliable and Unraid does not need the performance of USB3 as it runs from RAM after initial load.   It must be 32GB or less but 4GB or more is plenty.

Edited August 23, 2019 by itimpi

[Dad_Rage]

Awesome thank you. Now how do I mark this as solved?

[itimpi]

5 minutes ago, Dad_Rage said:

Awesome thank you. Now how do I mark this as solved?

Edit the title on the first post in the thread.