My data needs have dropped dramatically to the point where I can really get by with two 1tb NVME drives without parity since i have regular cloud backups.

 

If I want to use unRAID for its fantastic gui, docker implementation, and plugs-ins, but not for array/parity is there a good way to accomplish this?

 

My initial thought is to setup both of the NVMEs as unassigned devices with share turned on and then move docker to the /mnt/disks/NVME.

 

But any suggestions or traps i'm missing by moving to this setup would be greatly appreciated. 

Edited March 31, 20206 yr by veritas2884

Parity not required of course, but you must have at least one disk assigned to the array in order to start.

And an SSD in the array can't be trimmed, so you might not want to use the NVME as that required array disk.

Best bet would be to grab a spare HDD, or even a USB and make that the 'array' (also disable mover etc).

Then put your two drives into a btrfs cache pool (raid1 or raid0), that way TRIM is still supported and everything else is 'out of the box' functionality. 

Edited March 31, 20206 yr by tjb_altf4