Hi,

 

Im about to build a NAS to move 4 of my "old" drives into. The problem is that they got data(NTFS) and I have to handle the move with care. The hardware looks like this : 

 

Intel Core i3 10100 

Gigabyte B560M AORUS PRO

Ballistix - DDR4 - sats - 16 GB: 2 x 8 GB 3600 MHZ

Gigabyte - Solid state drive - 512 GB - M.2 2280 - PCI Express 3.0 x4

Corsair TX550M

Fractal Design Node 804

 

1x8TB - 5,5TB free

1x3TB - 1,4TB free

1x3TB - 0,19TB free

1x2TB - 1,5TB free

 

I will move around data to get 1 disc free at a time, it will take time but a new 8TB is to expensive and not needed in the end.

 

The question is if its possible to install unRaid on 1 disc? If not, how should I solve this puzzle?

 

Another question is how I can move data to the NAS array as fast as possible? Is it possible to mount a NTFS disc temporarily in unRaid to move files? Or do I have to move this over LAN?

 

Regards

 

 

Edited July 7, 20214 yr by Unrailed

15 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

The question is if its possible to install unRaid on 1 disc?

Yes, assign it as data disk, but it will need to be formatted before use.

25 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

mount a NTFS disc temporarily in unRaid to move files?

Unassigned Devices plugin 

1 hour ago, JorgeB said:

Yes, assign it as data disk, but it will need to be formatted before use.

 

But how does the partion register work? From what I understand 1 disc needs to hold patition information? Might it be better to start adding a smal disc for this? Will the entire disc be used for this? 

1 hour ago, trurl said:

Unassigned Devices plugin 

 

Thanks!

17 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

But how does the partion register work?

Don't hand understand the question, but Unraid will partition and format the disk before use, full disk capacity will be used.

18 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

But how does the partion register work? From what I understand 1 disc needs to hold patition information? Might it be better to start adding a smal disc for this? Will the entire disc be used for this? 

With a single disk in the Array, there will be no Parity protection.

 

The Unassigned Devices plugin will allow you mount your NTFS drives and copy the data to the Array.

4 minutes ago, ChatNoir said:

With a single disk in the Array, there will be no Parity protection.

 

The Unassigned Devices plugin will allow you mount your NTFS drives and copy the data to the Array.

 

Thanks, and if I add a second and third disc, will it create the parity itself? Will it use an entire disc or just a part of it for this? I have read in other forums that 1 drive is used as parity, that's why I ask.

 

From what I understand the largest disk needs to be used as parity so that means I should start moving over my 8TB disk?

11 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

Thanks, and if I add a second and third disc, will it create the parity itself?

Parity protection will only be added when you add a disk to the parity slot.

 

12 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

Will it use an entire disc or just a part of it for this?

Entire disk.

 

12 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

From what I understand the largest disk needs to be used as parity

Parity needs to be the same size or larger than the largest data drive drive.

31 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Parity protection will only be added when you add a disk to the parity slot.

 

Entire disk.

 

Parity needs to be the same size or larger than the largest data drive drive.

 

So I could skip any disc to the parity slot and just run it as is?

 

If I add disk to the parity disc the entire disc will be used to parity, nothing else can be stored here. And if the biggest data disc I got is 8Tb the parity disc needs to be 8TB?

 

If that is correct then it sounds like I will have to run it without parity disk. The problem is that this is the only way to secure data in unRaid, there is no regular raid levels, right?

 

Is there a NAS software out there that you think would be better in my case? This is the features Im looking for : 

 

- Share data to Windows and Android clients within LAN

- Run BackBlaze(cloud backup)

- Run torrent

- Run VPN

 

38 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

So I could skip any disc to the parity slot and just run it as is?

If you mean run without parity yes.

 

39 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

If I add disk to the parity disc the entire disc will be used to parity, nothing else can be stored here. And if the biggest data disc I got is 8Tb the parity disc needs to be 8TB?

Yes.

 

 

42 minutes ago, Unrailed said:

The problem is that this is the only way to secure data in unRaid,

Parity isn't a backup, it's high availability, meaning it will emulate a failed drive until a replacement is installed. There are MANY ways besides drive failure to lose data, so regardless of which NAS you decide on, you MUST have backups stored elsewhere of any data that you don't want to lose.

3 hours ago, Unrailed said:

a new 8TB is to expensive and not needed in the end.

If you don't already have backups of your data...