Hi everyone,

 

I have a QNAP TS-431X with 2 x 10tb JBOD Drives. I have just built a new system and setup unraid. I have been using my macbook to copy and paste media via finder from QNAP to Unraid. Is there a quicker way? I have turned off my cache (it is on 1tb) as this was slowing down the process when the drive became full. Both machines are plugged directly into my modem via ethernet. Can I pull the JBOD drives from the QNAP and plug into SATA in my unraid and use a tool in unraid to transfer files to my array?

 

I am new to unraid and after a more efficient way to do this. Thanks for your help!

 

1 hour ago, thetardiskey said:

Can I pull the JBOD drives from the QNAP and plug into SATA in my unraid and use a tool in unraid to transfer files to my array?

Do you know what filesystem is on the drives in your QNAP?

 

The tool you would use is the Unassigned Devices plugin. It will let you mount disks outside the array if their filesystem is supported by the plugin, and many are. It will also let you mount network shares so that would be another way to access your QNAP directly from Unraid.

 

Then there are several ways to copy files using just your Unraid server, but you may not be familiar with any of them, such as Krusader docker, Midnight Commander (mc from the command line, that is what I use), or various linux commands.

The file type is 'thin volume' and i can see RAID Group 1 in the dashboard of my qnap when i hover the mouse. I have installed these but not sure if they are the correct ones...

 

 

44 minutes ago, thetardiskey said:

RAID Group 1

That doesn't sound like JBOD.

 

How much data do you need to transfer? If it is a one-time operation, might not be worth learning new ways to do it and just continue with what you are doing. But learning new ways can be good too and would probably be useful in the future.

50 minutes ago, thetardiskey said:

installed these but not sure if they are the correct ones...

They are. You may not need the Plus for what you are doing.

I have 3 drives sorry (in the QNAP) and about 8tb full each. So I think the current approach will take weeks. I just moved 5 movie folders across and it took 2 hours. There are about 600 in that drive.

 

I have placed one of the drives in the Unraid server and this is what i see. I note it has FS as linux_raid_member (is this what you are after?).

 

When I select Mount it goes to mounting for a split second and then just goes back to mount..

 

I am unsure if i am doing it incorrectly or if it was successful and I haven't realised. I include a second screenshot of my dashboard.

 

Note: If this drive format isn't going to work the way it is, do you think plugging in a external drive to QNAP - dumping 8tb on to it (I would need to confirm with you what format the external drive  should be for unraid to read/mount) and then plug this via usb into my unraid server and dump across that way?

 

 

 

 

Thanks again for assisting.

Edited September 23, 20214 yr by thetardiskey
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44 minutes ago, thetardiskey said:

FS as linux_raid_member

not JBOD. Unassigned Devices isn't going to be able to work with it, and in fact, nothing will be able to work with a single disk from that RAID, they all need to be together and UD doesn't have a way to put them together. Maybe something could be done to mount that RAID from the command line, but that is even more complication unless you are already proficient at linux.

 

Unassigned Devices should let you work with the QNAP shares over the network though. Your screenshot for Unassigned Devices seems to be clipped so it isn't showing the section where it lets you add remote (network) shares.

 

 

 

Thanks for your advice and assistance. With it, and a bit of googling and youtubing was able to finally mount them as smb shares and install Krusader. Just attempted a file transfer from smb to a unraid share. Seems to work but getting some 'could not enter folder' errors. Not sure what this is from. I did a bit of googling but unable to find anything.

 

Have you come across this before?

6 hours ago, thetardiskey said:

'could not enter folder' errors

Could be corruption. Can you access the folders from elsewhere on the network?

I can access them

in Finder on my MacBook. I’m not too concerned as there aren’t that many. 

Oh interesting, I actually have the exact question but I am sure my drives are JBOD and not part of any array. I wonder if qnap tags them with something dumb, though, which prevents them being read directly. If they were some compatible format is there any chance I could just use them as is in my Unraid? I don't have anywhere to back these drives up to right now and I intend to actually install unraid on my qnap box.

 

I have 2x6TB which are JBOD and then a RAID 1 array of 2TB. I know the 2TB array wouldn't transfer over but I'm hoping I can do something with those 6TBs.