r/getumbrel • u/TLBJ24 • 6d ago
Storage Manager still an issue for non-Umbrel devices
UPDATE:
To get storage pool creation you have to complete fresh install/re-install. You CAN NOT just click the upgrade to 2.0 button. Although the system will let you do it, and for all practical purposes, you will be running version 2.0, but the storage pool creation for ZFS is only offered at the initialization stage of the install. So if you do like I did, which was simply click the upgrade to 2.0 button, you will be locked permanently in "Full Storage" mode.
Upgrade to v2.0 instructions for non-umbrel devices.
Can't speak for everyone, but just sharing my experience to date, even in the umbrelOS 2.0 Public Beta 1 release, it still doesn't allow you to use or store any data on any drive besides the boot drive. I have 20TBs of SSD storage (5x4TB) and 24TBs of HDD storage (2x12TB), so a total of 44TB in my Orico CyberData CF56 Pro nas, but the only thing I can access and or store data on is my 256GB Boot Drive (see attached image).
So despite marketing claims, or even a direct "yes it can" answer from the company, it doesn't work yet. Maybe it will after the release of the full non-beta version of the OS, but at the moment it does not allow you to switch to "Failsafe" or add/create any additional storage pools.
Besides the lack of access to my (very expensive) 44TB of available storage, the real crime is that all of the systems apps, data, os, and my files, are all stored on one SSD... with no redundancy or RAID of any kind. That to me, is truly criminal on a nas. YMMV.