November 7, 20223 yr I have unraid with a 4TB parity disk and 2-4TB disks for storage. Have all my disks always backed up (have mostly media) and want to use the parity disk for storage. Can I take the parity disk out of my configuration and have 3 data disks?
November 8, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Ronflea said: Can I take the parity disk out of my configuration and have 3 data disks? Yes. A parity disk is not required. Its main benefit is to protect from failure of a disk. It is not a backup solution anyway so as long as you are backing up your data and don't care about having to manually recover the contents of a failed disk, parity is not required.
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