LincStation N1 6 Bay NAS is out now

in this video I'm going to show you guys how to set up a traditional array and a ZFS pool with an unraid on your link station in one let's get started for this build we'll be using two 2.5 in 2 tbte Seagate Barracuda hard drives to install the drives we simply need to remove the two sleds from the enclosure then Place both hard drives into their own sleds and secure them with the included screws with the hard drives now secure we can take the sleds and slide them back into the enclosure and then we'll be ready to move on to the next part of installing our nvme drives to install these four Samsung 1 TB nvme drives we will need to remove the lids that act as heat sinks which cover the nvme slots once we do that we can insert each of the four drives and remove the plastic film that protects the thermal pads and finally replace the Locking Lids over the nvme drives now we can get our link station powered as well as plugging it into our router and our switch so that way we can access it from the local network then we press press the power button on the front and listen for a beep letting us know that it is in fact powered on with everything plugged in we can now use our favorite browser to find the server and so if we type in tower. loal it should bring us to this page the default username is root and the default password is 1 2 3 4 5 6 and that will get us logged into our new server the first thing that we're going to do and that you should do is change the default password and to do that you're just going to click on users and click on the root account so I'd highly highly recommend changing the default password of 1 2 3 4 5 6 to something else uh literally anything else will will be fine something that you can remember if I can type and now that we have a easy to remember password or something that we can use we're just going to have to log in with that one time now that the password is changed and we're back in we're going to immediately go over to the hamburger here and we're going to do check for updates and we're going to say yes view the change log to start the update process we could review this this is actually good information here if you need to know what changes are being made from previously to now we'll go ahead and hit continue we're going to update from 62.9 I think this is an important step to do just go ahead and get it upgraded to the latest and greatest version so that way when we start configuring things we have all of the features that we need all right so the update was successful so now we are just going to reboot our server by clicking on this icon up here or button up here and then clicking this button and the server is going to reboot and then when it comes back up we will continue now that the N1 is rebooted we can again go to tower. loal to log in using our new credentials and we're logged in the first thing I'd like to do is personalize my server by giving it a name so I'm going to change the server name here from Tower to in1 Nas and for the description this will technically be a media server but I don't want to leave the default name or description for media server so I'm going to change it to Myas and for model I'm going to change to link station in1 click apply we just need to wait for the page to accept our changes and refresh and it will prompt us to log back in as you can see our changes have been made let's just go ahead and get logged in once again with the default credentials the next thing I want to do is head over back to settings and I'm going to go to network settings now it's okay if you use DHCP because we can obviously type in N1 nz. looc but sometimes I don't like the IP addresses that my dhp server gives and I want to have a static IP address of something I can remember just in case N1 nz. loal doesn't work for some reason so I'm going to change this to 10101011 which is a unique IP address that is currently unused by any other computer on my network and I'm also going to leave the rest of this default you could change these parameters here for your DNS server to um just using cloudfare or Google or whomever it doesn't really matter um but you can see that I have three options here but again this is just optional so let's go hit apply here and now that our server has made that change we will once again have to log in now that we're logged back in one of the other things that I would recommend doing from this point is going over to apps and installing the community applications plugin this will come in handy later when we go to install some containers so we will need to get this installed and yes we understand that this is third party additions to unraid and not from unraid themselves and this is also being a service provided by Docker or these containers provided by Docker so with this installed uh let's now go ahead and install the connect plugin so this is from unrated official themselves so we'll click on install here and what this will allow us to do is um do Cloud backups so we can back up our flash storage device to unrated servers so let's go ahead and click on actions and go to settings from here what we're going to want to do is sign in with our un raid. net account now I'm already logged into unraid Donnet so for me this is what brings up but all you'll have to do is enter in your credentials if prompted so I'm just going to click on confirm here and now I am successfully signed in with my user account now that we're signed in we can use UNR connects handy tool of backing up our flash to the cloud this could come in handy in the future just in case we break something or make some modifications the operating system and allows for an easy recovery in the future this is a really cool free feature that unrate offers and so I highly recommend taking advantage of it while we can great so that that seems to be activated and up to date so we don't need to do anything from here unless we want to connect or allow remote access via unraid connect you can do that if you'd like we're going to skip out on it on for this video just to keep the link of this video down however we can see that we are connected to the UNR connect Beta And if we really wanted to we could go to UNR connect site and see that the N1 Nas is listed and if we were to click on details we can see that a flash backup was done on April 26th of this year so that is the one that I just currently did and then I can also see that I have a basic key on currently on my UNR device all right so let's go back to our unraid server and then continue configuring it from here to set up our traditional array we'll click on the main tab here and that'll bring us to this page that you see and what we'll do is we'll scroll down and actually reduce the number of drives shown because we only have two hard drives so what we'll do is we'll set one to be our parody disc and then another to be the actual storage drive that way if we do lose one of these discs they can always rebuild one another next let we're going to click on add pool and we're going to leave this as cach but we're going to say that we need four slots click on ADD and then we're just going to go ahead and start assigning our nvme drives to this cash pool now that all four drives are assigned what we're going to want to do from here is actually click on cache and then we're going to change the file system type to ZFS now this is going to give us a couple of options of what ZFS raid type we'd like I think my preferred type in this case will be either a raid Z1 or a raid Z2 raid Z2 is more fall tolerant and has two parody blocks and two data blocks from a single piece of information whereas raid Z1 is a single parody setup and is not asphalt tolerant however does have more performance than raid Z2 for my setup I'm going to select raid Z1 because I want to maximize my performance from here we'll go ahead and hit apply and now that that's been applied we can hit done and we've created a ZFS cache pool for our array so now what we're going to go ahead and do is click on start yes we'd like to proceed and we're just going to let this load so we can get the eray started and we're probably going to have to format some of these drives all right so let's just go ahead and say Yes I want to format these drives we'll hit format and then we'll let this sit for a little while and our array is pretty much good to go with the formatting complete and our parody sync completed as well we can move on to the next part of creating some actual shares that we're going to need for containers in the upcoming parts of this video so the first one that we're going to create is going to be called Data so we'll call it data and we're actually going to change the primary storage over to cache and then the second door secondary storage will be array so then all our new files will live on the cache and then be moved to the array later so we'll just hit add share click on done and we're basically going to repeat these same steps for the next few shares that we create so again we say it lives on the cache then gets moved to the array click on ADD done we'll add another share this one will be called import also lives on the cache get moved to the array now we'll add movies and for movies we're going to do something a little bit different we're actually going to leave it on the primary storage as the array so that way any movies will actually get read and stored on the array and we don't care too too much about performance for this device as so we're only going to be the only ones using it so we hit add share we're going to add another share this one's going to be called pictures and for pictures we're also going to use the primary storage of the array so that way everything is nice and safe on there and we'll click add share done and finally the last share we're going to add is going to be TV shows and this one will also live on the array and we're not going to have secondary storage for it and we click add share and now we're done let's go ahead and install our first container let's click on apps here and the first container we're going to install is going to be called photo prism so we'll give that a search click on install here for that container we're pretty much going to leave everything default but we are going to make just a handful of changes so storage path for actual pictures we created that earlier and that's under mount user pictures and then we're going to have an import folder as well that can be useful in the future for actually importing uh photos we're going to say offive uploads we're just leave it as true this is allow uploads that may be offensive uh flag offensive photos false website title we're going to call it uncast ow portfolio caption will be where dreams were made these these are all optional by the way you don't have to do this but I'm going and do it website description um SPX Labs is cool is great I mean author we're going to say SPX Labs I cannot type uh you could set a password here if you wanted to so if this is going to be like on the open Internet you may want to set a password uh for now I'm actually going to delete this we're going to have our ours is public so we can just easily access it um so I'm going to hit on remove and we're going to create a new key so that way we can actually make this public this part is very important because if you do not do it you will not be able to access your um photo prism app so we're going to give this a name of o photo prism public our key is going to be photo prismu value will be true default value will also be true and we'll click on add all right and those are all the changes we're going to make if you do click on Advance view there are going to be some more options in here and if you also do show show more settings there are going to be a ton more options my recommendation would not be to touch any of this stuff unless you absolutely know what you're doing or working on and uh I'm just going to leave everything as default so we'll hit on apply and we'll wait for this download this container to download and get installed and then we'll configure it all right it is done and installed so we're going to click on done let's go over to Docker go to web UI and you can see that there are no currently no pictures found that's okay that's to be expected because this is brand new we could upload pictures if we wanted to so let's go to pictures let's grab some photos here get those all uploaded upload complete so let's go to folders and we can see some pictures in May of 2024 and uh here are some photos all right easy peasy all right so we got those photos uploaded let's look at how to upload photos a slightly different way so we created that folder earlier in our shares that was called import so let's go ahead and actually share this or export it so that we can put folders in there and then then be imported into our photo prism container so we'll let this it for a minute and it should become available now I'm going to look at my network and look for N1 Naas and the import folder is public and available so let's drag some photos into there from here let's go to library click on import and then click on import again and that should be imported yep it's importing on both of our pictures so I believe now if we go back to folders yep we see two more pictures added to our collection here on April 24th the next container we're going to install is called jelly Fin and jelly fin is great because we can actually take advantage of the link station's onboard Graphics you or I GPU whatever you'd like to call it so we're going to install Ben hex's repository Linux server repository would be good as well I'm just going to do this one because I'm most familiar with it first thing I'm going to do is just change this to Advanced and we're going to make sure we add in some extra parameters here so that we can use the onboard Intel igpu to do all of our transcoding and encoding for our movies or TV or whatever medium we might want to play so all we need to add in is D- device equals slev SL dry so this is supposed to be driver but dry is fine and we will skip on down to the next part we need to add our movies here so we're going to select movies and SL SL Mount user movies okay and we also have TV shows so we need to add another path so let's go ahead and do that we'll give the path the name TV shows you can call it whatever you'd like we will do TV shows again our host path is going to be TV shows that autofills for us so we don't have to think about it and we're just going to click on ADD I think that pretty much adds everything we need to have so let's just go ahead and hit apply here and that'll download and get installed for us and when that's done we will come back to it and take a look okay the container is done being installed and it's probably already running so let's just click on done here we'll go back to Docker we can see that's already started that's good we can probably get into the web UI and set it up so let's go ahead and do that just click on next you can give it a username and password if you'd like um I'm not going to do that for this I'm just going to leave it open since it's on my network but you can always come back and do it later uh we can add some media uh let's just say movies display name movies got some folders to choose from so the one the base one that was called media we map to movie so we'll select that and we'll hit okay and we will pretty much leave all of this other stuff as default settings you can always modify this or change it as necessary we're going to add a second one for our TV shows so we'll call it shows display name is shows is fine select TV shows like we did earlier click okay and we're just going to leave all default settings you can customize that later if you'd like click on next next again allow remote connections server this is kind of up to you if you'd rather if you'd like to have remote connections or not I'm going I'm I'm gonna allow it just for funsies we're all done finish okay so the default username was nobody so we'll just sign in because there's no password all right we need to add some content to this so we can actually watch something so let's go back to our shares and then let's go ahead and make these public so export yes it's already public apply we'll click on done and now we're going to want to do the same thing for movies export yes apply okay now we just need to add some content so here is my network shares with movies and TV shows so let's just go ahead and paste in something now that we've dropped a movie in there we can go back to jelly Fin and see that's been populated but just before we play it we do want to do one more thing to make sure that our Hardware acceleration is actually enabled so we're going to click on the hamburger menu over here go to dashboard we're going to go to playback and then we're going to say where it says Hardware acceleration we're going to select VA API this is for Linux and it autop populated the render driver that we are going to use for Hardware acceleration en coding transcoding all that stuff so we know that this is actually working and we're going to go ahead and just select HC and av1 just for fun Z's and you can go through here and change more settings if you like if you really want to dive into that that's not something this video is going to cover we're just simply setting it up for now and actually let's go all the way down and make sure we hit save with our settings saved we can now go back to our video and press play and all of that should be working fine [Music]

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Published: Thu May 23 2024