USB3 external hard drives as an Raid 1 System

[uli]

Hello,
I’m a complete beginner and have installed Zima OS on a mini PC. Unfortunately, it only supports two internal hard drives. However, I’ve connected two 1 TB external USB hard drives. I’d like to set up a RAID 1 system, but unfortunately that doesn’t work. I’m also missing a Linux client. As soon as these features become available, I’ll purchase the paid version right away.
Or are there ways to make this work right now?
I think the system is brilliant as a home server. Finally free from US online storage.
Thank you very much for this
Uli

[jriberg]

Can you expand on what you mean with “But unfortunatley that doesn’t work”? Do you get any specific errors?
I haven’t tried my self yet but I’ll try out now at the same time.

Edit:
Well, I plugged in two usb-drives, they show up on the dashboard but when I press “manage”, nothing shows up - is it the same for you?

After some searching the forum, seems like USB drives aren’t supported yet..

ZimaOS - Local backup destination and overall treatment of usb drives

Hi Peter, Thanks for putting this together, your visuals are clear and very helpful. I checked the Mural board and the flows make perfect sense. You’ve captured the current behaviour accurately and the expected behaviour you outline is exactly the type of clarity users look for, especially around external drive handling and 3-2-1 backup destinations. Just to confirm the technical side: • USB drives in ZimaOS are currently treated as external/removable only. They aren’t part of the ZimaStorage…

[uli]

Hello,
Thank you for the quick response.
Access to the USB hard drives is possible even from an external device, at least on Windows. I’ll make do with some synchronization software.
Is an official Linux client planned?
I’ve only had the system for a week, but so far I’m thrilled with how easy it was to set up and share files externally using ZimaOs.
Thank you very much for that.

[777-Spider]

1. We will support creating RAID using USB in the next version, and we hope you will be able to experience it.
2. Our amazing community developers recently created a Linux client, and we hope you can try it out and give us some feedback. GitHub - astralcynsm/ZimaClient-Linux: a small network management tool based on ZeroTier, Wails and Samba · GitHub

[uli]

Ok, i will try the Linux client and wait for the next version.

Thanks very much

[jriberg]

I’m running 1.6.0 beta and can confirm that usb drives are usable as “regular drives” now - no issues over the past few days - fingers crossed

[uli]

What do you mean “ usable as “regular drives” now”? Ist it now possible to make a Raid 1 with two USB Drives?

[jriberg]

That’s exactly what I mean by it

I setup a raid1 on two USB drives no problem

[uli]

ok, i also update to 1.6.0 Beta. Setup raid1 is still in progress.

It’s been working pretty well on Windows so far, but on Linux Mint, I can access all the hard drives via their IP addresses in the browser—though unfortunately not at the file level. The Zima client is installed, but unfortunately I can’t get it to open. The Zima client won’t start, and there’s no error message. Too bad—I was actually hoping to move away from U.S. products.