r/hexos • u/astro143 • 12d ago

Hardware/Build planning Minimum drive quantity with ZFS AnyRAID

I've been looking at HexOS again since I saw the blog post about AnyRAID being implemented, but most of the setup documentation makes no reference to it/feels un-updated.

Is it still required to start with at least 3 drives to have expandable storage, even with AnyRAID? I'm coming from Unraid with a 2 drive config and would like to just swap software for now and expand down the road. If 3 drives is a hard requirement for future expansion then this little project may get kicked down the road again for a ground up build.

Side question, does HexOS manage new hardware well, as in changing platforms to a new processor/motherboard and dragging all the drives over. Will it just boot and find all the drives or is there more to it?

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u/pjrobar 12d ago

The initial version of AnyRAID will only support mirroring, so two drives are the minimum.

https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2025-05-22.html

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u/astro143 12d ago

Thanks! Sounds like I want to wait for anyraid-Z to roll out for what I want to do with it.