Adding local HDD/SSD for Media drive (with recent HA OS and Core)

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Hi Everyone,
I added a 2nd physical SSD (2 TB) to my HA OS Install on a NUC. I have HA running on the existing 256 GB SSD, and want to continue doing that, but use the new 2 TB SSD as the Media drive for holding Frigate recordings, etc.
According to Frigate instructions here: Installation | Frigate
it says “As of HomeAssistant OS 10.2 and Core 2023.6 defining separate storage for media is supported”. However, I’ve searched all over and I don’t see instructions on how to do this (Only instructions on how to do it with a NAS). Most of the posts I see are for older versions of HA OS/Core, which doesn’t directly support this. I can see the new drive listed under /dev/disk/by-id/ so I know the hardware is working but that’s about as far as I got.
I’m running HA OS 10.4 and Core 2023.8.2

I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!

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This isn’t supported in HA officially, only NAS connections are.

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Ah, good to know. Do you know of any plan to support it in the future, or whether there is a somewhat simple work-around?

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I am one of the frigate devs, it will be supported in frigate addon as soon as it is supported in HA.

If you installed frigate in native docker it would already be supported

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Use google translator and check if it helps your need.

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Got it. Thanks so much for your quick response! If someone is able to, it might be helpful to edit the Frigate docs to clarify that with HA OS 10.2, it is possible to use NAS, but not separate local drive.
Thanks again.

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I think it should be clear, the section of the docs is called HA Network Storage and the sub title says Setting Up Remote Storage For Frigate

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Yes, that section is clear if you are looking to use Network storage, but silent about local storage. Then under “Installation” → “Home Assistant Addon” section, it says “As of HomeAssistant OS 10.2 and Core 2023.6 defining separate storage for media is supported.”, which to me implied that it should be possible since adding another HDD is an example of separate storage. Then a ways down it gives a link to the NAS instructions, but again is silent that you can’t do local storage which left me searching and searching for a section that talks about local storage.
Maybe just modify the above sentence to something like “As of HomeAssistant OS 10.2 and Core 2023.6, defining separate NAS storage for media is supported. However separate local/HDD storage is not yet supported if running HomeAssistant OS”.

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Ah gotcha, I see. Thanks I’ll get that updated.

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Awesome. Thanks!

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Should this not be an actual feature request. Surely including network storage is as complex or as simple as adding an additional drive to the local machine. It is not a Frigate thing, this is purely a HA thing.

Like having a mechanical drive or seperate SSD for the database and media storage would mean that it would be easier to scale the system. You could retain all config data on the primary drive.

I have seen posts about auito mapping USB drives as the media folder. If this could be done why could we not have a feature to set a local physical drive as the media storage.

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So, does this means adding a 2nd drive to a NUC is pointless for HA?

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I am looking forward to see this feature being realised.

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Currently there is no way to add a local drive as an additional storage drive. There are work arounds for USB drives and you can add network drives.

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@sparky7 look here