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I will drop the array down and add them one by one. I forgot to ask, is it possible to clone the parity drive with the array down and insert that second parity drive without having to rebuild it? You also mentioned "default" settings. Are there optimized settings that I should be looking at for my configuration? Thanks again

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to prepare new drives for 6.4.1? I notice that pre-clear isn't an option anymore, I can see it's really not required as the array can function while clearing the drives. My issue is I have my drives stored in a Dell Md1000 storage array connected to an Dell h800. So the Sata2 bus gets destroyed while downloading or writing to an active data drive. The 8 3TB data drives I just added are clearing at 3.5mb/s which is going to take almost a week to complete. Is there a way I can do this on another computer or unraid setup to prepare them as new datadrives? I have considered but not tested running an older version of unraid ( one that supports the preclear function ) and clearing them on that. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My current setup is: Parity 1 : 8TB SeaGate exos enterprise sas. Datadrives are 8 HP MDL 3TB sas drives. Cache drives are 2x 256gb Samsung 850 pros SSD. I have a second 8TB exos to add as the second parity drive and more 8tb WD red pros on order to fill up the remaining 4 slots in the array. Thanks.

Wouldn't the P630 just show up as a PCI device? If this is true I think passing the PCI device through to the VM would be possible. Either through the GUI or manual XML edits.

Open device manager You will see your unknown devices. Right click the unknown device and select "update driver". Select "Browse my computer for the driver software" Click browse Select the CDROM Drive virtio-win-x.x Then click next. Windows will scan the entire device for the location of the best-suited driver. It should find a RedHat network adapter driver, follow the prompts and you're in business. ** I never bothered to locate the actual subfolder of the driver on the virtio-win-1-1 image, I just let windows do it for me. ** Hope this helps.