[SOLVED] How To... Proxmox, OMV, USB Disk Box

LameDuck

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Dear community,
I've only just started using Proxmox. The installation of Proxmox went well. But after that... Installing OMV gave me headaches and some unsuccessful attempts.
Can you give me some tips on what the structure should look like? Maybe I can read about it in the forum. I've already searched but haven't found anything suitable. I would like to set up a small NAS for home use. For this purpose, two SATA HDDs are available, which I connect to a mini-PC (USB only, no SATA) as a Proxmox server via a USB Box Terramaster D2-320. My thoughts: OMV as VM or LXC? What do I do with the HDDs? Raid1 in Terramaster? Raid1 in Proxmox and pass a plate to OMV? Pass both disks through to OMV? Spindown etc should work. SMART data should be accessible. The NAS system is to be backed up to an external storage device in a time-controlled, automated manner and selected files are to be replicated to a cloud. I would like to be able to read one HDD on another Linux system in case of system failure. I suspect a direct connection to a Windows PC is not possible. Could you give me tips or sources where I can find out more? Is there a strong AI that can support me at this point? Thank you very much Thomas
 
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