May 12, 20233 yr Sorry for the indulgent vent post here but I needed to vent. I am new to UNRAID and one thing that strikes me a poor part of the user experience, at least from my perspective is migrating your data. Its taken days to transfer around 14tb and tried various methods ( krusader, SMB, dynamix ) they all had problems. I know some of these problems will be due to my lack of experience and if I was more confident then I same sure midnight commander would have worked better but I cant help and think that unriad should do a better job natively and have good video guide for us noobs. Its a paid product so getting started should feel a little slicker imo. Again sorry for the moan! ha its been a long week.
May 12, 20233 yr I am afraid that it will take a long time to migrate large amounts data because hard disks are just not fast enough! This is a hardware limitation. If copying across a typical gigabit network you are also going to be limited to the network throughput which will be less than the drives can manage. For initial setup we recommend that you do NOT assign a parity drive as that slows down writing to the array, or if you want to assign parity from the outset then turn on the Unraid Turbo write mode to maximise throughput at the expense of always having all drives spinning and consuming power. Other than that there is not much that can be done other than realise that transferring the large amounts of data that can fit onto modern hard drives takes a significant amount of time.
May 12, 20233 yr Author Yeah I didn't mind the time so much it was more when something went wrong. krusader, Dynamix crashed or errored and as I am a noob I didn't know what data had made it across. I used goodsync on my pc to check and fill in the blanks but that was sooo slow over the network. I just think that the developers could make a really robust and user friendly UI that could make this easier for noobs. Anyways. I deleted it all again and will do it in chunks so if something goes wrong I can try transferring a folder rather than doing a whole disc again. Thanks for the reply. I just needed to vent Much love
May 13, 20233 yr I found that using something like teracopy worked better than native windows file copy. It forks it and uses multiple threads/streams to move data, but yep on gig networks it takes ages that is why I am upgading mine to 10 gig
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