@rocklobster wrote:
HI,
I've been procrastinating about setting up a home NAS for a long time. I gave up with the idea of freeNAS/ZFS as couldn't justify the outlay and didn't want to use BSD. Then I stumbled upon Rockstor and it seems like the best option for me.
I'm testing an install in virtualbox but things are not going smoothly.I've created a 8Gb primary VDI disk and 4 extra VDI, 2x 100Mb and 2x 200Mb. Fixed disk sizes for those 4.
Installation no problem but in the GUI I cannot see the extra 4 disks.
Login to command line and parted told me the disk label was invalid so I set all 4 to gpt.
The OS sees the drives no problem. There are no partitions on any of them.
The GUI however just doesn't see them at all.Any ideas where I might be going wrong?
The end game is to install on hardware with 6 drives, RAID1 config, 2x 2TB, 2x 3TB, 2x 1.5TB as one big pool
Is this best practice or would I be better off with 3 separate pools sized for each of the drive sizes ?
RAID1 for availability only. Backups and replication will be done to a second box off site & local USB (or something!) snapshots.I'll be running MQTT, emby and tvheadend dockers on top of it all with some DVB-T cards installed.
E5800 16Gb ram, 9SATA & M/S PATA.
One machine to rule them all.
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