April 30, 201115 yr Hi! I built my first unRAID. I have now added disks to a total of 7 plus parity. The strange thing is, it has never cleared any drives, even though they were not new and had files from my Drobo/Windows & Mac machines on them. All the dashboard asked me to do was format, then they were available. As I keep reading how many hours clearing disks takes, I am wondering why on earth my server never does this? I am running 4.7, with 6x1TB WD Grean and 1x2TB WD EARS as a parity drive. System is set to 4k aligned.
April 30, 201115 yr Hi! I built my first unRAID. I have now added disks to a total of 7 plus parity. The strange thing is, it has never cleared any drives, even though they were not new and had files from my Drobo/Windows & Mac machines on them. All the dashboard asked me to do was format, then they were available. As I keep reading how many hours clearing disks takes, I am wondering why on earth my server never does this? I am running 4.7, with 6x1TB WD Grean and 1x2TB WD EARS as a parity drive. System is set to 4k aligned. you added parity last. The unRAID array will clear the drives once you have parity established.
April 30, 201115 yr AAAAh, I see. thanks! So much more at ease now No problem. Did you pre-clear the disks to allow them to detect and re-allocate any bad sectors. (That would also prevent unRAID from doing the "clear" with the array off-line on its own.)
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