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Ok that makes sense, thanks. Does this mean that i can only have 8 TB of usable space? Because i was hoping i could get something like RAID 5, 24 TB of usable space with 1 drive of failure tolerance. EDIT: According to ChatGPT:

Also, something else i noticed - why does it say Total size: 8 TB ? When each of my four harddisks are 8 TB each.

I got unRAID set up in a virtual machine today by pass-through'ing the harddisks directly to it. This works nicely. I formatted the four harddisks beforehand in proxmox, so there's nothing on them. When i selected them in the array in unraid (1 for parity, and 3 for disks), they've started syncing. It tells me this sync process is going to take 18 hours. Why is this? What is there to sync if there's nothing on them? Or is it just calculating its total size or something? Or have i configured something wrong maybe..

Alright thanks anyway.

Is there an estimate for when this feature should be available? I could simply postpone this migration until that is in order. I would much rather have unraid handle this process. My current setup with TrueNAS "works", i just can't add more harddisks to my truenas pool.

Another pastebin: gpart show

Sure, here's a pastebin.

Currently getting a CMR harddisk is out of the picture, but i suppose that can be done down the line. I was planning on just using a 250 GB SSD as a cache disk, hopefully this could make things a bit smoother. This is great to hear. So far i think Unraid is exactly what im looking for. Yeah, that is a good ppint. I will just move libre office files over to my WD NAS instead. These are all great responses. I think i should have it all covered. Can someone confirm that this is the case in terms of a migration from TrueNAS to Unraid? I've never used Unraid before, and TrueNAS is also relatively new to me.

With TrueNAS there was a small chances of files going missing/corrupt, i got the impression that this wouldn't be the case of Unraid. As long as i won't lose any data with SMR on Unraid i am happy with that.

Good day. I built a home server a few months ago and decided to go for TrueNAS with two 8 TB harddisks. They were initially configured with mirror raid. Now that i need more storage, i was going to migrate to raidz1 (raid 5), but it turns out SMR harddisks is not recommended. This is due to TrueNAS using ZFS. After some research, unraid is a possible solution for all this. I was wondering if someone can tell me if this is going to work fine with Unraid, here are my use cases: Download and store movies and tv series, primarily. I also store some libre office files on a seperate share, it is critical that these files are not corrupted/lost. my requirements: I need to have a big amount of storage to store movies and tv shows. When/if i move to unraid, i will have 4 harddisks, and i should be able to at any point just add more harddisks to increase the unraid disk pool/array. If a harddisk fails, all i need to do is to purchase a new one and insert it and it will replicate the data from the other harddisks to the new one. I'm thinking a 1-hdd loss is enough. It needs to be compatible with SMR harddisks, so that i wont bump into problems down the line. I'm sure this is possible, but easily deploy SMB shares within unraid. Migrating from TrueNAS. I've been using TrueNAS ever since i got the harddrives, and i used 3.5 TB of data. These are mostly movies and tv shows i want to move over to unraid. I would assume i would just wipe the drives, so i can get the unraid pool created with its proper file system and raid configuration. Once complete, i would just import the data from a harddrive with all the data. Is this accurate? There was a whole discussion about this over at the TrueNAS forums.