yoleska Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment
Solution SimonF Posted June 10, 2023 Solution Share Posted June 10, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
domrockt Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
yoleska Posted June 10, 2023 Author Share Posted June 10, 2023 Aha! Do you have it as the parity disk or member disk, or does it matter? Then I can create my ZFS pool? Quote Link to comment
domrockt Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 no parity disk just one "menber" Disk. Quote Link to comment
yoleska Posted June 10, 2023 Author Share Posted June 10, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
domrockt Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 No thing, the community helps a lot, Unraid is amazing. Quote Link to comment
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