Setting up new F4-423 without drives?

[lcoil79]

I just received my new F4-423 and am waiting for my 18TB drive to arrive early next week. Is there anythign I can do for setup and initialization now, or do I just need to wait til I have the drive and loaded? Starting out small for local fileshare and camera storage, will be expanding later to TRAID for redundancy.

[Gremlin]

Given that you have nvme capabilty, have you considered 1 or 2 nvme (don't have to be huge, I use 500Gb) in Traid for the o/s (TOS) (set up as Storage Pool 1/Volume1. This would include a '/public' folder if you wish to use that and /homes, likewise. You can install your apps on Volume 1 as well which keeps a lot of activity on the nvme drives. Then your HDD can be setup as Storage Pool2/Volume2 for your data. The advantage is that it allows more effective 'sleep' possibilities for your HDD (if important to you) with a small downside of slight delay when starting to read data. Otherwise O/S will install on your HDD.