Hey folks,
I'm very much a noob when it comes to NAS, but I've been playing around with home computers, and then PC's since the 80's, though my youthful enthusiasm for tinkering has given way to the "if it 'aint broke, don't fix it" mentality, and leaving the more specific areas, like NAS to folks who actually know what they doing ... ๐
I was running freenas until one of my drives started playing up recently, so I was advised to install unraid, and join this happy band ... ๐
I've watched the basic setup videos from Spaceinvader One to the point where I thought I knew what I was doing, but I quite obviously did not.
I'm at the stage where I have got the hardware organised, until such time as I can transfer all the data off the HDD and onto the NAS. With that done, I'll add that HDD to the array.
For the moment, I'm trying to go for a KISS approach, as I'll be the only person with access to the NAS, in the short term at least, and I've broken the array down into a hand full of shares to make it easy to find what I want from whichever PC I'm using.
Now that I'm trying to copy the data off the new HDD, I've managed to copy some of the data across, but now one of the cache drives is full, and stubbornly refuses to free up space when I try to run mover.
After playing around with things for a few days (mostly stumbling around in the dark), I've decided to hold my hand up and ask for help ... ๐
As I said, I've just started copying files onto the NAS, so if absolutely necessary, I can wipe the drives and start over.
tia
John
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