June 24, 20224 yr Hello, I am new to Unraid and planning to setup one. I have a HDD enclosure, e.g. Orico 4 Bay which I understand if I plug it directly to let's say Windows, it will have 4 drives appears in Windows Explorer. My question is if I use Unraid, can I configure it as a RAID, e.g. RAID5 and have a single volume instead of 4 volumes? Apologies if this kind of question has been asked before. Thank you. Edited June 24, 20224 yr by Vibranze
June 24, 20224 yr Author Thanks, 13 minutes ago, trurl said: Unraid IS NOT RAID. Thanks, so i will have 4 volumes available to use? Will it detect the 4 disks in the HDD enclosure connected via USB-C?
June 24, 20224 yr Solution 41 minutes ago, Vibranze said: Will it detect the 4 disks in the HDD enclosure connected via USB-C? Maybe, depends on the enclosure. USB is not recommended for Unraid's main array for many reasons. I recommend watching a few youtube videos on Unraid, so you can get a feel for what it is and isn't. Also, https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Overview The way Unraid's main array works means all the disks must be accessed simultaneously for parity building and recovery operations, and USB is bad at that type of I/O, some enclosures and USB controllers also have a bad habit of resetting connections which can cause a drive to get kicked from the array. Some have managed to get USB to work somewhat, but it's definitely not ideal.
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