Bare metal - internal hard drives

[IRH1980]

Describe the feature

I'd like to be able to adress additional internal hard drives when on bare metal and running HAOS.

Use cases

In my case i run Frigate as a HA add on. At the moment i am having to use a nas for storage, to keep the recordings seperate from the OS hard drive. It would be much simpler to have that drive inside the pc chassis and be able to access C:/ D:/ E:/ etc as a typical user might expect to.

Current workarounds

The drive is installed in a NAS.

Anything else?

No response

[mib1185]

you can move the data partition to a separate disk

[IRH1980]

I can, but if i understand correctly, i can't use two/three internal drives at the same time? So OS would know one is what it runs off, and the second and third are storage drives that it or its add ons can use?

[mib1185]

you can use at least two storage devices in one system

[Maxelweb]

Hi 😃 I think @IRH1980 is suggesting to be able to mount internal hard drives in the same way as you can mount network share.
In this way a user can benefit from its internal hard drive storage for specific add-ons (e.g. Jellyfin).

[cvroque]

Yeah, being able to have a smaller SSD for the system and a bigger HDD for storing media on the same device would be great.

[Robbe-B]

Wouldn’t it be great to have a feature to add extra disks via the UI, natively supported in HA ? (same as for the network storage)
This would look something like this:

Before mounting the physical disk, when adding this for the fist time, you would also be prompted with a popup choosing the intended use for the physical attached storage & the device path ofcourse.

NOTE: This would only be available when using the HA OS installation method

[Robbe-B]

@frenck, @mdegat01, @MindFreeze
Would this be accepted, if I started looking into this ?
Or is this something you're already working on ?
Kind Regards,
Robbe

[MindFreeze]

Yes, we have talked about implementing exactly this for USB and internal drives but no one is working on it right now. Keep in mind it's not a simple task. Needs to be handled in Supervisor.