I’m coming from WHS and still confused on unraid.  This box will be used for personal file backup and movie streaming server (bluray rips).  I have set up a movie and mkv share folder but when I access the unraid server from my windows machine I’m showing few folder shares like Disk1, disk2 and flash.  Is there a way I can remove that? NOTE: i'm currently using free version

 

Also I’m looking at a crash proof plan where if one of my 2TB drives dies I still have those files on other drive but from what I don’t understand is if I have 3TB space I should only see 1.5TB of free space and not  3tb?  I have a 2TB parity drive along with 1TB and 2TB drive. So once I expand more drives it will get bigger and still won't lose any data on one drive?  (WHS takes 1/2 the drives for duplication)I read the FAQ and still vague on this and not sure I should invest getting a pro edition of unraid yet.   

 

 

 

UnRaid uses a parity scheme rather than duplication to provide redundancy. Parity means that the corresponding bits on all drives add up to an even number. So if any drive fails, each bit position on teh failed disk can be figured out. The parity consumes one total disk which is 100% lost in terms of storgage.  But this parity disk (in combination with all the othet drives in the array) is sufficient to recover any single failed disk.

I have a 2TB parity drive along with 1TB and 2TB drive.

 

You will have 3TB of protected storage. If you add an additional 2TB drive you will have 5TB of protected storage. Your single 2TB parity drive can protect up to 20 data drives (The current limit.)

looks like the parity questions are well fielded at this point

 

your questions about the default shares would be best served via the manual methinks - http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Export_settings

 

for your case, I'd look at changing the disk and flash shares to one of the hidden modes (maybe export read/write hidden, so they can still be navigated to remotely, but only by typing in the UNC directly (\\tower\disk1, \\tower\disk2 etc))

 

 

Thanks for the responses and now its clear to me.