So my granddaughter got a hold of my Unraid flash drive, and it is no more.  My fault completely.  I have a replacement flash drive up, and I realize until I get a replacement key, I can only see 2 data drives.  What bothers me is that I only see two drives.  I thought I would be able to select any of them to bring online, but only ever have two at a time.  Should I wait until I get a replacement key and not mess with anything?  Luckily I had my old flash drive backed up, so I am not having to start from scratch.

 

Any advise would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

James

Better to wait till you have the new key. Just put the drives in the same order as they were and it should all come back online.

I'm assuming you had the usb drive sticking out the front or back of the case.  You may want to look at something like this to mount the drive internally.

Don't assign parity. Assign two data disks. Start "array". To see other disks, stop array, run "initconfig" command, assign two drives you want to the 2 disk slots (leave parity slot blank). Do this as much as you want. When you get new key, you could try restoring your backup config directory (except you need the new key file). Make sure to run a full parity check and expect a few sync errors.

 

Oh yea, forgot to mention, when loading your disks into he 2 disk slots with no parity, DO NOT write to the disks.