February 15, 201115 yr ok. call me an idiot. i'm a linux geek for many years and have used mdadm in the past and was so psyched to see how unraid does stuff way better than standard mdadm and freenas, but i have a stupid question. i'm waiting on my plus account activation and right now so i'm limited to 3 drives and have a server setup using the free raid setup. i have 250, 250, 125 and 125 installed. being i could only install 3 drives until i get my license, i setup the 2 250's and 1 125 and it's saying i only have 250 in space. what am i missing...? it seems the unraid setup will let me take advantage of adding the smaller drive as well, but the 250 total space stumped me... i'm curious what happens when i can add my additional 125 to the mix....but was expecting to be able to take advantage of 'some' of it with the current setup. what am i missing? thanks.
February 15, 201115 yr ok. call me an idiot. i'm a linux geek for many years and have used mdadm in the past and was so psyched to see how unraid does stuff way better than standard mdadm and freenas, but i have a stupid question. i'm waiting on my plus account activation and right now so i'm limited to 3 drives and have a server setup using the free raid setup. i have 250, 250, 125 and 125 installed. being i could only install 3 drives until i get my license, i setup the 2 250's and 1 125 and it's saying i only have 250 in space. what am i missing...? it seems the unraid setup will let me take advantage of adding the smaller drive as well, but the 250 total space stumped me... i'm curious what happens when i can add my additional 125 to the mix....but was expecting to be able to take advantage of 'some' of it with the current setup. what am i missing? thanks. It sounds like you have assigned the 250 gig as a parity drive and two 125Gig drives as data drives. If you had a 250 Gig parity drive, and a 250 gig + a 125 gig data drive you would have a total of 375 gig of space available in your array for data. If you attach a syslog to your next post we'll know for sure what disks you assigned.
February 15, 201115 yr Something is not right. In the free version you are allowed one parity drive and two data drives. So you have a 250 GB parity, a 250 GB data disk1, and a 125 GB data disk2. That should be 375 GB of usable space (250 + 125). The parity drive does not count towards the usable space. Your fourth drive (125 GB) will be unused until you get your license.
February 15, 201115 yr Author Thanks for the response. I am 100% sure I have 250-parity, 250-disk1 and 120-disk2 and 120-unused right now. does the full size not reflect correctly until the first parity synch. is done? perhaps that is it? Maybe it is as simple as that. I understand I can't use the 4th until registered - not a problem there. One other question...why when i turn on user sharing it automatically enables shares for disk1 and disk2? And they look un-raided??? That stumped me. I then built a folder on the "test" share I created but could then see it on one of the other shares (disk1) and not on disk2? That threw me too. Maybe I just need to stop f'in around until the parity build is done. what do you want from the syslog specifically? I'll dump it. Here's the web screen listing. parity Maxtor_6B250R0_B61FZQVH 48°C 245,117,344 - 41 279,170 0 disk1 HDS722525VLAT80_VN693ECFEMS87D 48°C 244,198,552 244,158,252 277,163 2,037 0 disk2 WDC_WD1200JB-00REA0_WD-WMANN1185470 37°C 117,220,792 117,184,368 245,092 1,074 0 Total size: 245,117,344 KB
February 15, 201115 yr it's saying i only have 250 in space. what am i missing...? Until you enable user-shares (and disable or hide the disk shares) you will see two shared drives on the LAN. They'll represent the contents of disk1 and disk2. The disks are used individually until you enable user-shares, after which their contents are shown in a consolidated view and allocated based on the allocation method chosen. See here in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#User_shares_2 and here specifically for allocation method: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method No need for your syslog at this time, based on the few lines from your last post, all is fine. You should have two LAN shares right now (unless you disabled them) As you create top level folders on the disks "user-shares" will be defined. None of this has anything to do with parity. (which by now is probably completed its initial calculation.) One thing you should now do is click on the parity "Check" button to ensure what you've written to the parity disk is readable. Joe L.
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