Hi all,
I'm currently running an eTrayz nas in RAID 1 mode,
I don't have enough room left on the device, so I bought some new hardware to build an UNRAID storage server.
I currently have 2x2TB (2TB data) hd's in RAID 1 and want to go to 4x2TB (6TB data) in the new system.
I'm using a separate OS disk, to install a full slackware on using the tutorials in the wiki. However this disk has not yet arrived from delivery.
However since I want to use the 2 disk from the old array in the new system, can I just plugin one of the RAID 1 disks in the new system, mount it and transfer the data (the eTrayz has REALY slow transfer speeds) to the other 3 (precleared) disks. And later preclear that disk and add it as parity. I don't care that much if for some unfortunate event a disk crashes before the parity disk is added, since its mostly just movies and series for my HTPC.
I found some info on how to mount it, but that requires mdadm to be present. I did the preclearing in my HTPC running from an unraid usb stick. However the stick doesn't have mdadm on it. Can I install that or would it be better if I installed it on the full slackware disk when it arrives.
Once all the parts of the new system have arrived, I would like to get it running asap and not wait for an other 26 hours of preclearing just so I can start the transfer.
I hope I explained my situation clearly, and you can help/advise me TNX
ps. Little background info on myself. I manage several Debian (web)servers, so I know my way around linux (I'm not an expert on it, but i know how to install, configure and maintain it from console), and I've never run Slackware before.