bobchapman

yes that's the problem

Yes Unraid is booting

I've removed a bunch of no-longer-used software, but no hardware changes. HDDs are all SATA-connected. I forgot to say earlier that I'm trying to install Unraid on bare hardware; that is, no Windows install. Don't know if that makes any difference.

Thank you both for the quick response. So the problem was/is that the mobo is not seeing the disks, so when I clicked on the down-arrow, all I got was the word "unassigned" on a blue background --- there were no disks shown as options. Now working to try to fix the mobo visibility of the disks. Strange problem because these disks have been used successfully with this mobo in the recent past.

I've downloaded the 6.9.2 version yesterday, got it installed, and I'm logged in successfully. But I cannot for the life of me figure out the next step and cannot find any help in the online instructions. I'm on the main page and it looks as though I should be assigning the unassigned disks (all of them). My configuration: 16GB parity disk (I'm hoping that Unraid is going to be a BIG store, at least by for non-business customer), 2 x 4GB plus 1 x 3GB for data storage. There will be (I hope) two main data sets initially: 2GB of photos, and 1GB of other data. I think that means two Shares??? I imagine that the Shares should be distributed across all three data drives??? There will initially be only 1 user. CPU is a 4-core 2.8GHz. My goal: all I want to do is protect my data from loss, so this is basically to be a NAS. I don't anticipate that I will have plugins for entertainment,, etc. Can anyone help by showing me how to make the necessary setup step of assigning disks, please? Bob