live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Initially I formatted them all as NTFS as I do have windows machines, but I do also have linux machines as well. I was thinking maybe XFS may be better. I'm basically storing data on them and then not much else after that will be written to them. Figured I would get some input before filling them all and having it essentially be too late to change. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 How valuable is the data, and how many copies of any particular piece of data will there be anywhere you can access? Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 (edited) 30 minutes ago, JonathanM said: How valuable is the data, and how many copies of any particular piece of data will there be anywhere you can access? The data isn't terribly valuable, so loss is acceptable if there is an immediate failure. The drives will be accessed all the time. Edited August 23, 2021 by live4soccer7 Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Is there a reason to use UD and not Unraid Pools ? It would require using BTRFS but there would be advantages (data available in the Shares, possibility of redundancy, etc.) Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Would that count toward the 30/31 drive limit? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, live4soccer7 said: Would that count toward the 30/31 drive limit? All drives that are plugged in when starting the array (except for the boot flash) count regardless of how they are being used. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Unassigned devices do not count toward that number, from my understanding. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 They count for the license limit, also there's no 30 device limit license, there's 6 for Basic, 12 for Plus, and unlimited for Pro, there is a 30 device array limit, but pool devices don't count for that. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Just now, live4soccer7 said: Unassigned devices do not count toward that number, from my understanding. They DO if they are plugged in when starting the array. Drives plugged in later (i.e. removable drives) do not count as the check is only done on every array start. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 I have the unlimited pro. So these don't play into the "Array" limit if I were to create a btrfs pool with the drives? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, live4soccer7 said: So these don't play into the "Array" limit if I were to create a btrfs pool with the drives? Correct, there can be up to 35 pools, of up to 30 storage devices per pool. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Great! I'll have to look at the documentation to see how the pooling works, flexibility, etc.... Ideally, I'd like to add to the pool if necessary or even remove a disk if I have a failure without "destroying" the pool. Different drive sizes would be nice, but I suppose it wouldn't be the end of the world if they had to be the same size as long as I could remove a failed/failing drive and shrink the pool with just a loss of data on the one disk. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Will I be able to run smart tests on the individual disks in the pool after it has been created and the disks have been added? These disks are new to me, so I would like to run tests on them all and wondering if I should do so before creating a pool. I'm thinking the pool is the way to go for me. Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, live4soccer7 said: Will I be able to run smart tests on the individual disks in the pool after it has been created and the disks have been added? Yes. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 Fantastic. I'm liking this a lot. Gotta shut the server down, move a couple things, etc... then get it back up and get a pool created and start transferring some files stat. Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 (edited) well that went "buttery" smooth. HAHAHA. created a pool with 7 drives to try out. It was easy and intuitive in the gui. Edited August 23, 2021 by live4soccer7 Quote Link to comment
live4soccer7 Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 I'll be mounting the "pool share" and transferring a lot of files from Ubuntu. Would nfs be the best bet for speed? I have plenty of bandwidth on the LAN (10Gig). Quote Link to comment
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