We all know that HA doesn’t provide for expanded local storage but has anyone done a fresh install using the Ubuntu method and used LVM to create a Logical Volume of 2 installed 2TB NVMe SSD’s and then installed HA? I’m trying to utilize both drives as a 4TB solution.
My assumption is that it will break once HA is installed. Other ideas are welcomed…
What are you ACTUALLY trying to accomplish? I’m sure someone can offer guidance if you are hunting for the result instead of trying to specify the method?
@NathanCu Gotcha, I will edit the post but here’s what I’m trying to do. I purchased a new NUC that will hold 2-2TB SSD drives internally and would like to utilize it as a 4TB solution if possible since we cannot extend or utilize the 2nd one in HA… is this possible?
Short answer: no
Long answer: HAOS (not HA, but HAOS) has very limited support for a second disk, and at that it’s only able to put the OS on one disk and the data on the other. That feature isn’t even mentioned in the docs any more.
@Tinkerer k, so I can at the least put the OS on one drive and the data on the second one which if I understand, I can still utilize the 4TB but as 2 - 2TB drives.
If you’re installing the HA OS on the thing, I struggle to see what you’re going to want 4TB of storage for.
Perhaps put a normal Linux distro on it with Docker, and run the container version of HA alongside other stuff.
That’s effectively what I do on my NAS: the Synology OS deals with the mirrored 2×4TB disks, and HA is run in a container alongside a load of others including Pi-hole, MotionEye, mosquitto, the Unifi controller & database, a web server and so on.
I was going to store the Frigate recordings internally rather than an external location and use the external for a second backup solution from the Google Backups I do now…