Moving from W11 to Proxmox w/Unraid
reddit / selfhosted

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Noob_HL · 2023-10-11 18:48

So I am currently running a plex server from a W11 machine.

I am using Stablebit Drivepool to aggregate 12 drives of various sizes
(5x14TB, 4x8TB, 3x4TB) into a single media pool that Plex reads from.
I am also using [Stablebit
Scanner](https://stablebit.com/Scanner/Features) to monitor drive
health.

From just a pure storage perspective how much effort is it to
accomplish the same type of monitoring/scanning on Unraid? I am
assuming it has to have tools specifically for this. Also, I assume I
would be using BTRFS or XFS for the file system if I just want a
single pool, correct? Or are you able to use multiple pools for a
single share?

Ideally I would like to run ProxmoxVE and virtualize Unraid because
there are other services I want to run as VMs/LXC and I don’t want to
use Unraid for that. How large of a hit would it be to have Plex in a
different VM from Unraid? I imagine that they would be talking over
their emulated network connections but aside from latency there
shouldn’t be a huge hit from doing that in terms of playback
performance on client systems, right?

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ElevenNotes · 2023-10-11 18:57

There is almost no performance difference between what you have now
and Plex in a VM (I would run Plex as a container though). If you need
hardware transcoding and your CPU supports it you can pass that
through to the VM or container.

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GolemancerVekk · 2023-10-11 18:58

[A starting point.](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/zw9q
5k/should_i_switch_from_stablebit_drivepool_and/) Consider what
features you need from Drivepool and can't live without.

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Noob_HL · 2023-10-11 19:00

Yeah, hardware passthrough will be necessary. I was just going to pass
my A2000 through to use for SDR tone mapping and transcoding.

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-11 19:05

/r/unRAID

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epsiblivion · 2023-10-12 01:42

if you are using proxmox, why not zfs?

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Noob_HL · 2023-10-12 02:13

Would I be able to pool drives similarly to how Stablebit allows me to
do it with zfs? The way things read for UnRaid made it look like BTRFS
or XFS were the systems to use for that.

I am not at all familiar with the various non-windows file systems. It
didn’t seem like zfs was a good fit for a single pool of varying sized
drives but I am always interested in learning more.

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znutarr · 2023-10-13 00:19

You can pool drives with mdadm

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znutarr · 2023-10-13 00:20

Use btrfs and mdadm for pooling drives