June 10, 20233 yr As the title suggests, I'm testing out some scrap drives while I wait for my new 16TB ones to preclear. No whammies this time!! And yes, I did check and they covered under Seagate's 5yr warranty! Anyway, I created a pool of 4 8tb drives, assigned the first one to be ZFS with Raidz1. I had thought that's all I needed to do to start the array, but it's grayed out and tells me that there's no drives in the array. So.... did I misunderstand and the drives HAVE to be listed in the array and then I can somehow make them ZFS during the startup sequence? Currently, I have them in the array and about to push "start" but wanted to check here first. I have a feeling they'll just come up as Unraid OS and not ZFS.
June 10, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution 15 minutes ago, yoleska said: As the title suggests, I'm testing out some scrap drives while I wait for my new 16TB ones to preclear. No whammies this time!! And yes, I did check and they covered under Seagate's 5yr warranty! Anyway, I created a pool of 4 8tb drives, assigned the first one to be ZFS with Raidz1. I had thought that's all I needed to do to start the array, but it's grayed out and tells me that there's no drives in the array. So.... did I misunderstand and the drives HAVE to be listed in the array and then I can somehow make them ZFS during the startup sequence? Currently, I have them in the array and about to push "start" but wanted to check here first. I have a feeling they'll just come up as Unraid OS and not ZFS. Currently you need to have at least one device in the array. I use a single small usb flash drive.
June 10, 20233 yr Hello there you need atleast one HDD/SSD/Thumbdrive as an drive in your array then you can setup any Pool you want. I think you want something like i did here.
June 10, 20233 yr Author Aha! Do you have it as the parity disk or member disk, or does it matter? Then I can create my ZFS pool?
June 10, 20233 yr Author Yup, @domrockt that's exactly what I was trying to do. Ok, I pushed the button and set them in the Unraid Array. I'll stop it, find a spare USB drive and do that. I'd give you both credit if I could.
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