February 4, 20224 yr Hello, New to UnRaid Gonna start my first build, but i have some filled drives already and 3 empty drives. Question! Can i setup 2 Parity and 1 Data and start moving files and adding additional Data drives as i empty them? Also got any good newbie tips tricks?
February 4, 20224 yr Community Expert Do you have good (enough) backups? You must always have another copy of anything important and irreplaceable. Parity is not a substitute for backups. Now that I've made that clear. Dual parity is probably overkill unless you have a lot of data drives. And you can add disks later, including parity. If you wait until you have done the initial data load before adding the (first) parity, it will go faster since writing with parity is slower due to realtime parity updates.
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