johnestan

"parity has no data". Thanks that answers my question. I'll just do a new config and keep the same parity disk. Thanks for the help!

So do I need to manually clear a disk in order to use it as the new parity disk after New Config without losing data?

Hi, can someone walk me though how to remove a disk from my array and rebuild parity. I moved my system into a new case and broke the plastic off a drive's sata connector in the process. I'm currently running my array with the missing disk emulated and therefore unprotected. I don't think there was any data on the missing disk. If I click view on the emulated disk, there are not any files. I'd like to just rebuilt parity with the disks I have while keeping all my data intact. Thanks.

I'm planning on upgrading my Unriad box and moving my gaming pc into a VM. I'm thinking about getting an Intel Core i9-10850K because 10 cores for $400 is the sweet spot for me that Ryzen 5000 skips, and, more importantly, the integrated graphics can transcode 4k files from my plex docker. This saves me from having a dedicated GPU for transcoding and saves a PCIe slot. Does anyone have any Z490 motherboard recommendations with passthrough in mind? There isn't nearly as much info on Z490 passthrough as X570. I only need 6+ sata ports, a 16x PCIe slot for a 2070, a 8x slot for a LSI SAS card, and extra smaller pci slots for usb/sound/nic if the onboard stuff wont passthrough. Thanks for your help!

How about a thunderbolt dock like the CalDigit TS3? I wouldn't ever be unplugging the thunderbolt cable. Just plugging and unplugging stuff into the dock (usb, headphones, sd card, etc.)

I like the idea of passing through a thunderbolt port into a VM, and using thunderbolt to transfer video and usb to a work station dock. Is thunderbolt passthrough working at all? On intel, AMD, built in, or PCI card?

My 3770k gaming pc bit the dust the other day. My unraid box still going strong on a AMD A4-3400, but it's about time to upgrade that too. I was planning out a single box unraid/gaming vm solution. I don't think it would be much cheaper than doing two separate boxes, but I think it would be a fun project. Can anyone double check my part list and answers few questions? Planning on buying (once the 5900x shows back up at MSRP) CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X Motherboard: ASRock X570 TAICHI RAM: 2 X 16GB DDR4 A CPU Cooler Already Have Video Card: GTX 2070 Power Supply: Corsair 650W Mass Storage: 6 X Sata HDDs Case: Rosewill RSV-L4500 LSI Sata Card for future HDD expansion Boot Storage: 2 Sata SSDs (1 for gaming pc and 1 for unraid docker) 1. Can I passthrough a single sata SSD for the gaming VM, or do I need to go ahead and switch to M.2? 2. My end goal is to fill the 16x PCI slots with a gaming gpu passed though, the LSI card, and something like a 1050ti for 4k transcoding in my plex docker. While using 2 of the M.2 slots if possible. The PCI lanes stuff is kind of confusing to me, will I be able to run this config? 3. How many cores should I leave for unraid? 4. Is it possible to run another windows VM (without a GPU) for something like Blue Iris? 5. Will the gaming VM be able to access the unriad storage at full speed? This is a big advantage of doing one box for me if so. That way I don't have to invest in a 10g network yet. Thanks for your help.

I'm wanting replace my gaming PC with an Unraid VM. Is it possible to passthrough and GPU Thunderbolt 3 card, and use a thunderbolt dock to provide video and usb connectivity?

Thanks! That did it. It is now mounted. Do you have any suggestions on how to copy the data off this drive?

I'm moving from Freenas to Unraid. I currently have Unraid up and running with 3 8tb drives (one used for parity). I have 3 drives from my ZFS Freenas system (8tb, 6tb, and 3tb) with data on them that I would like to move to my new Unraid pool. All three drives are have data on them separately and were not part of a ZFS pool. I've tried to piece together a solution from previous posts, but I'm stuck. I have added the ZFS and Unassigned Devices plugins, and have tried to import one of my ZFS discs using terminal in Unraid and the command "zpool import -f". I get this: pool: Red8tb id: 14029892406868332685 state: ONLINE status: The pool was last accessed by another system. action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier and the '-f' flag. see: http://zfsonlinux.org/msg/ZFS-8000-EY config: Red8tb ONLINE sde ONLINE I'm not sure if the disc is successfully mounted yet, and if it is I'm not sure how to access its data. Thanks for any help you can give.

They are using ZFS, so I don't think it will just be plug and play. I see that there is a ZFS plugin for Unraid. I might post in that thread and ask. I have 5tb of free free on the 17tb worth of drives.

No parity. They are all set up as separate drives. This is the main reason I wanted to switch to unraid.

I'm still trying to figure out how to move my data over. Thats my main issue, was seeing if anyone had any advice on the move from freenas. I'm out a sata ports, so I wouldn't be able to add a ssd easily. Will a flash drive do a reasonably good job at holder docker files?

I'm currently running a messily configured Freenas server and thinking about switching to Unraid for hard drive pool flexibility and more user friendly interface. I was wondering if there is an easy way to move my drives into an unraid pool with 1 parity disk. I have data on a 8tb, 6tb, and 3tb drive in Freenas all shared as single drives, and an empty 8tb drive to use as the parity disk. I also wanted to double check that my older hardware will work. I just want to run basic file sharing, Plex for direct play, Sonarr, Radarr, and maybe home assistant in docker (its performing these tasks, minus home assistant, fine with an older Freenas build). CPU:AMD A6-3500 APU Motherboard: ASRock A75m-itx server motherboard RAM: 8GB DDR3 Case: Lian Li PC-Q25 Thanks for your help.