Very new still and learning as much as i can, i am still even on an UNraid trial but at this point i am locked in.
That being said at the time of setup i did not have a parity drive, I am adding that today, what does that process look like? I had help setting all this up but its time to start doing on my own. After i physically put the drive in the server and boot up what are my next steps?
Informational: Can someone explain how parity works because i still do not get it, i have 4 drives total, 3 of them are each 4TB and 1 is 10TB so my new parity drive is a 10TB as it needs to be as large as my largest or bigger. How does this one drive cover failures on all 4? My brain cant wrap around this. When upgrading drives (lets say i am going to replace a 4TB with a 10TB) i was told i would use the parity drive to offload a 4TB drive, remove, add bigger drive and then reload from parity. How does this process work? It must be manual no? How could i otherwise garuntee the data from the drive i am removing is on the parity? Sorry for these juvenile questions.
Cache drive: at the time of setup i also only had a 256GB NVME drive, its still only 50% full but regardless i will adding a 1TB NVME SSD later today along with the new parity drive. I will leave the current cache drive in place, and add this as well, how do i move everything from the old drive to this drive and make it my cache drive?
I think that is all for now, thanks kindly for the time.