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So far, I've found this. Any other info is greatly appreciated. My last drive will be here in a couple days...I'm preparing for the setup. Trying to plan a bit. "In addition, by eliminating the use of traditional RAID-based technologies, we can scale on-demand by adding more drives and without needing to rebalance existing data." THAT is friggin epic.

Interesting. Hence the "un" in "unRAID", I suppose. Got a link to more info on this? Fault tolerance is important to me. I've had BAD bad times with RAID in the past...lol

Yup. For sure. "RAID is not a backup", as the saying somewhat goes. What RAID options are there, anyway? It doesn't do the usual 0, 1, 5, 10, etc types of RAID, does it? I'll be running 4 drives.

No. This is going to be the main archive. There will be another off-site. I just don't want a drive dying to completely screw the thing.

Done. Thanks again.

I'm sure I'm going to find it as soon as I post this, but where do I go to mark it as solved?

Ah yes. Good point. Didn't think about that. Out comes the RAID card!! Thanks.

So, just give the drives to unRAID. And benefit to doing it this way over using the hardware RAID controller?

I'm going to be running unRAID on an HP Proliant DL360e G8 (12core/24thread dual Xeons, 64GB RAM, 4 HDDs for 20TB+). For now, it is going to be used to run a few Windows VMs...one to run Blue Iris for my security cams, one to run Plex and another for rendering videos and archiving photos and videos. But...I was wondering: I have a p420 RAID card and was planning on creating a RAID10 volume with that, then presenting this volume to unRAID so it can divvy up the space and allocate it to the VMs. Would it be better to present the drives to unRAID and let it create the RAID volume? Redundancy is of the utmost priority. This is going to be used to back up photo and video archives. Any pros and cons to do it one way or the other? Thanks!

Ah. Got ya. Hence SD cards not being supported, I suppose. Very well, I guess. Sure would be nice to use that SD card slot. Thanks, everyone.

I have no idea what it's even pulling the GUID from. I think it's picking up the motherboard for the GUID as it says iLO is blacklisted. That's a feature of the Proliant's motherboard/NIC. I don't really think it has anything to do with the SD card. I don't know, though. I mean...if all else fails, I can just shove a USB drive into the thing I guess, but it sure would be nice to be able to boot from the SD card slot that's built into the motherboard...

Good evening: I got unRaid up and running using the SD card slot integrated into my new Proliant's motherboard, no problem. ...except...when it boots...t says my USB is blacklisted. It's thinking the iLO on the motherboard is the USB device. I know running off of SD card isn't officially supported, but it works PERFECTLY on the Proliant and being able to utilize that integrated SD card slot, freeing up a USB port, would be awesome. Is there a way to...un-blacklist...my server? Any help appreciated. Thank you.