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    Advice for how to arrange my array?

    in General Support

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    Hi Everyone, just looking for some pointers on best way to go forward in relation to arranging my disks as I don't think it is as simple as I thought.

     

    I run unraid as a VM on esxi, for the past year or two I have been very happy running it with with 2x 8tb drives with one of them as parity drive.

     

    I have recently started filling it up so decided to expand it and I got myself another 2x 8tb drives (I paid a bit more for nas ones this time) and my naïve intention was to expand by another 8tb and add a second parity drive.

     

    But is having 2x parity drives in an array of only 4x disks a bit overkill?  I am trying to figure out if 2x parity is stupid in a 4 disk array?

     

    The data on the array consists of backups of all our devices in the house + a media collection.    Loosing the backups would not be a real problem as long as one of my devices didn't have a failure at the same time, and the media collection would suck to loose but it is not absolutely irreplaceable/critical.

     

    I am thinking maybe a better idea than 2x parity would be to keep the 4th disk separate from the array and do a cronjob copy type backup of my media collection to it?  But then I don't think its possible with unraid to present a disk on it's own?   Also baring in mind that I now have 2x older cheap 8tb drives and 2x new slightly more pricey 8tb nas drives.    Basically I don't know best way to set it up and am curious what any of you more experienced unraid guys would be thinking? 

     

    Thanks in advance!

     

    cannot change network settings

    in Virtualizing Unraid

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    Hi guy, pretty straight forward issue I am having.

     

    I have unRaid virtualized as a VM on ESXI.

     

    Under network settings I cannot change them due to me needing to stop the VM manager:

     

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    yet under the vm manager i have:

     

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    Is there a way i can enable the network settings?  I am not looking to use the VM features of unRaid.

     

    Many Thanks