My first Unraid Impressions and some questions!

[Teejoo]

Hi all,

 

I finished the built of my first Unraid server for my movies and I'm impressed with Unraid. It's quite intuitive to manage, gives a lot of info and is very flexible. (I'm just getting started. I mainly use the standard settings until now.)

 

The system looks like this:

 

- Asus PRIME Z590-A

- Intel Core Intel Core i3 10300 boxed

- Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3600

- 7x WD Red Pro, 16TB (incl 2 parity drives)

- Samsung 870 Evo 2TB (cache)

- Corsair RM550x PSU

 

Everything went well with setting up Unraid. I temp disabled the parity drives (after pausing it first) because I noticed it takes a long time and want to transfer the data first. Copy speed from a windows PC to the share is much faster as expected. Have to test transfer speed by USB drive.

 

I do have a few questions:

 

- What I don't understand is why from every 16TB drive there is already 112GB Used?

- Why is the USB drive where Unraid on it shared?

-- And where can I find the setting where you can tell what the minimum free space is per disc?

- Just to double check: activating the parity drives after copying the files doesn't have any impact on the files on the other drives?

 

Thanks!

 

Theo

Edited April 2, 2022 by Teejoo

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, Teejoo said:

What I don't understand is why from every 16TB drive there is already 112GB Used?

It's normal filesystem overhead for xfs with reflink support.

 

1 hour ago, Teejoo said:

Why is the USB drive where Unraid on it shared?

Because it can be handy to access it over the network, it's disable by default on newer releases, and you can change that on shares settings for the flash drive.

 

1 hour ago, Teejoo said:

And where can I find the setting where you can tell what the minimum free space is per disc?

You can set the minimum free space for shares, not disks.

 

1 hour ago, Teejoo said:

Just to double check: activating the parity drives after copying the files doesn't have any impact on the files on the other drives?

Correct.

 

[Teejoo]

9 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

It's normal filesystem overhead for xfs with reflink support.

 

Because it can be handy to access it over the network, it's disable by default on newer releases, and you can change that on shares settings for the flash drive.

 

You can set the minimum free space for shares, not disks.

 

Correct.

 

Thanks!