jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hey guys so I just pretty much put together my first Unraid build except for the HDDs. Right now I am just using one 2tb drive and one 2tb parity drive. One of the 2tb drives I have has data on it can I use this or do I need to back it all up first?? Quote Link to comment
jeff.lebowski Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 You'll need to get that data off the drive first, then prepare it with a pre-clear (maybe even a deep level format before that), and then it's ready for the array. Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hey guys so I just pretty much put together my first Unraid build except for the HDDs. Right now I am just using one 2tb drive and one 2tb parity drive. One of the 2tb drives I have has data on it can I use this or do I need to back it all up first?? Anything on it will be completely erased if you add it to the array, so back it up elsewhere if the data is important to you. Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hey guys so I just pretty much put together my first Unraid build except for the HDDs. Right now I am just using one 2tb drive and one 2tb parity drive. One of the 2tb drives I have has data on it can I use this or do I need to back it all up first?? Anything on it will be completely erased if you add it to the array, so back it up elsewhere if the data is important to you. it is important! so i will do that... that is what I thought. Thank you guys Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 had another question...doesn't really pertain to this but can you have your unraid server on its side? Didn't know if this would affect hard drives or anything Quote Link to comment
Velkitor Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 you can have it any position you want. Just make sure that you aren't preventing any airflow... heat is bad... Quote Link to comment
mbryanr Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 The configuration tutorial is a good place to start once your server is built. Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 The configuration tutorial is a good place to start once your server is built. thank you for that! also.. which version of unraid should i use? Guide says it is written for 4.6 should download that or 4.7? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 The configuration tutorial is a good place to start once your server is built. thank you for that! also.. which version of unraid should i use? Guide says it is written for 4.6 should download that or 4.7? Use 4.7 Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 The configuration tutorial is a good place to start once your server is built. thank you for that! also.. which version of unraid should i use? Guide says it is written for 4.6 should download that or 4.7? Use 4.7 ok thank you and I am assuming that guide will still be fine ? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 ok thank you and I am assuming that guide will still be fine ? Yes, it still applies for the most part. There is one extra thing I would do on the settings page. There should be an "alignment setting" and it would be best if you set that to mbr 4K aligned if you are starting from scratch. Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 ok thank you and I am assuming that guide will still be fine ? Yes, it still applies for the most part. There is one extra thing I would do on the settings page. There should be an "alignment setting" and it would be best if you set that to mbr 4K aligned if you are starting from scratch. If I was following that guide where at would that come up? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 If I was following that guide where at would that come up? It would be under the disk settings section http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial#Disk_Settings Quote Link to comment
jakebake Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 If I was following that guide where at would that come up? It would be under the disk settings section http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial#Disk_Settings thank you for your help! It is killing me having to sit at work waiting to get this started! haha Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.