December 19, 20205 yr i'm using a 12tb drive as a parity drive right now. that makes 12tb the max drive size i can add to the array. if i add a 2nd parity drive at 18tb - then that means i can add 18tb drives to my array? thx i'm currently running 12tb - parity 3tb 12tb 8tb and have 12 trays open Edited December 19, 20205 yr by [email protected]
December 19, 20205 yr 17 minutes ago, [email protected] said: i'm using a 12tb drive as a parity drive right now. that makes 12tb the max drive size i can add to the array. if i add a 2nd parity drive at 18tb - then that means i can add 18tb drives to my array? No. Data drives may not be larger than either parity drive. https://wiki.unraid.net/Parity
December 19, 20205 yr Author oh so data drives can only be as big as the smallest parity drive? if i'm understanding correctly?
December 19, 20205 yr 7 minutes ago, [email protected] said: oh so data drives can only be as big as the smallest parity drive? if i'm understanding correctly? Yep. Parity is the sum of the bits across all the drives at a specific address. If the parity drive was smaller, it wouldn't have a spot to keep track of that bit.
December 19, 20205 yr Author got it. thx. so i'd need to upgrade my parity drive then to run larger data drives
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