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Thank you…just out of curiosity, why is UnRaid limited to only one array, but can have multiple additional pools?

Thanks…so 1) unassign all the existing drives from the current array 2) create a new array with the new drives 3) manually copy all the files from each of the old drives to the new array? Given the current array is redundant, and hence have multiple copies of the same files, if I copy each drive over, would I be creating duplicates of each of the existing duplicate? I’m assuming once I unassign the drives from the existing array, I’ll need to access them as individual drives and not as a whole, but maybe that’s incorrect?

Hi, thank you. Would this require the same number of new drives as the number of old drives in the existing array? Unfortunately, I don’t have that many new ones. Just 14 14TB new drives vs. 28 3TB in the existing array.

Hi, I have an UnRaid server with 28 3TB drives which are quite old and I would like to migrate the data to a new set of 14 TB drives. All my google searches on upgrading drives seems to suggest I do this one drive at a time. Given the large number of drives and time to re-sync parity etc., Im wondering if it’s possible to have two active arrays at the same time which would allow me to re-create the shares etc., and simply move the data to the new array. Is that possible? If not, what is the best way to accomplish what I’m trying to do? Thank you! PS - yes, I can connect all the drives (new plus the old) at the same time using SAS JBODS

Hi, sorry for the noob question, but how do I install unrar on my UnRAID system? I googled and found I need to install something called NerdTools, but that seems to be no longer available. Is there a new method? Thank you

Hi, thank you. I found that re-attaching the drives to the Areca card and disabling SATA Power Up In Standby in the Areca Raid Storage Manager solves the problem. These drives now work with a LSI HBA in another system.

Thank you!

Hi, I have a bunch of 8TB WD Red drives I’m trying to repurpose for UnRaid. These came from an Areca RAID set that I’ve upgraded with larger drives. However, they don’t seem to come up on UnRaid. At first, I thought it might be the Pin 3 issue, but after covering Pin 3 with tape, they are still not recognized. The drives are recognized if I direct connect them with a SATA cable, but I am trying to use them in a Supermicro SC847 JBOD. So while it could be incompatibility with the JBOD, these drives are recognized when used with the Areca RAID card in the same JBOD. So it seems the Areca card + Supermicro JBOD combo works, but LSI 9220-8i + Supermicro JBOD does not. Note the combo LSI + Supermicro JBOD is my UnRAID box and it works fine with a bunch of old WD 3TB and 4TB Red drives. Just these 8TB ones are not working. I’ve also trying the “clear” them by hooking a few up in a windows box and running “clean” in DiskPart, but still no luck. Anyone else experience this? So weird! Any suggestions welcome!

I see…thank you. That might be too risky for me since I’m also not very experienced with how UnRAID works. If it all fits, maybe I can copy the data to 5 of the new drives, remove the existing array and then create a new one with the 5 unused drives, move the data to the new array, and then add the other 5 drives to the array. So there’s not a way to have two concurrent arrays in a single UnRAID box? If there is a trial period for UnRAID, would I be able to build a new box, create an array with all 10 drives, copy the data over, remove the old drives and array from the old UnRAID box, install the new drives in it and then “import” the new array? Is there such a thing as “importing” an array?

Hi, I have an array with 28 plus 2 parity drives. These are old 3TB drives and I would like to completely replace the array with 10 20TB drives for peace of mind since some of the 3TB drives are over 10 years old. What is the best way to do that? The articles I have read all talk about replacing the drives one by one, but I think that would require 30 new drives? I don’t need the added capacity and figured 10 20TB drives will be sufficient for a very long time. Thank you

Thank you, but I don’t think the article answers my question or at least I don’t think it does. My question is what happens if I change the primary storage after the share is created. Will Mover be smart enough to move the files that resides on the “initial” primary storage to the “current” primary storage or will the files remain on the “initial”/old primary storage?

Hi, thanks. Would you be able to elaborate? What do you mean it will move to the current secondary pool set? Do you mean Mover will be smart enough to move the files from the “initial” primary storage (which is no longer designated as primary) to the “current” primary storage?

Hi, in my UnRaid box, I have a single "temp" driver, a btrfs "Pool" array and the main UnRaid array. I know for each share, I can designate a primary storage and a secondary story and Move will move files from primary to secondary when Mover is run. What happens if say for a particular share, I initially set the primary as the single "temp" drive and the UnRaid array as the secondary, I then move some files, which will then reside on the "temp" drive, but before they are moved to the array, I change the primary location from the "temp" drive to the btrfs "Pool"? If I run Move now, will Move be smart enough to know to also move the files that are on the "temp" drive? Or will those be "orphaned"? If I'm in this situation, I can I get UnRaid to fix itself so that all files are located per the current settings for primary and secondary storage ie, with primary being the btrfs "Pool" and secondary as the UnRaid array, and have all the files that are on "Temp" moved to the btrfs "Pool"? Thank you

Hi, I have an UnRAID array with 20 disks. The remaining free space on each disk ranges from 15GB to 105 GB and in total, free space is around 2TB I also have a temp single 20TB hard drive and the shares are set up such that files first land on this temp drive before being moved to the array. However, when I click on move, Mover is not moving the files to the array. What could be causing this?

Thank you….let me try that!