snowy-shaman6239 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 hi at all, I wanted to move my plex server to unraid. so I have to format my existing drives, right? when done, I can copy my media files from backup to the freshly formatted unraid HDDs. Is it recommended to NOT include parity on first fill-up? so drive speeds will not be decreased by parity? I would like to copy media at best speeds (160 MB/s) and then activate parity when all files are copied to the new location. is that possible? Quote Link to comment
Solution Frank1940 Posted August 12, 2023 Solution Share Posted August 12, 2023 Yes. Just don't assign the parity drive until you have finished the copy. (When you do assign a drives to be parity and start the array, Unraid will imediately begin to built parity on that drive. It takes about two hours per TB of the capacity of the parity drive.) I would recommend that you maintain those old plex drives as a backup until you have parity built on your Unraid server. Quote Link to comment
snowy-shaman6239 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Share Posted August 12, 2023 thanks for your quick reply. just "inserting" the old plex HDDs into unraid is impossible due to unraids file system, I guess. so I have to find a way to copy the contents from one HDD to another, right? Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) It depends a bit. Have a look at the Unassigned Devices plugin as it can mount disk that have certain formatting schemes. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92462-unassigned-devices-managing-disk-drives-and-remote-shares-outside-of-the-unraid-array/ and the Unassigned Devices Plus plugin which adds to the list of supported file formats. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92462-unassigned-devices-managing-disk-drives-and-remote-shares-outside-of-the-unraid-array/ As long the disks are not a part of RAID setup, the odds are good that you read those Plex disks. EDIT: I just realized that both Plugins are supported in the same Support thread... Edited August 12, 2023 by Frank1940 Quote Link to comment
snowy-shaman6239 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Share Posted August 12, 2023 the original HDDs are windows formatted NTFS disks that I would like to integrate without formatting. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 Just now, snowy-shaman6239 said: the original HDDs are windows formatted NTFS disks that I would like to integrate without formatting. The UD plugin can mount them outside the Unraid array for reading/writing. However if you want them to be part of the Unraid array then Unraid has to partition and format them (which wipes any existing content). 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Lolight Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 12 hours ago, snowy-shaman6239 said: thanks for your quick reply. just "inserting" the old plex HDDs into unraid is impossible due to unraids file system, I guess. so I have to find a way to copy the contents from one HDD to another, right? You can also copy data over your network. It's not the fastest but might be the easiest way. Check out "Spaceinvader One" videos on youtube for tutorials on Unraid. 1 Quote Link to comment
snowy-shaman6239 Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 I bought an external enclosure where I can put one disk at a time and copy it over. Will certainly take me a week. But writing speeds should be unaffected when I do not have parity ON, right? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 36 minutes ago, snowy-shaman6239 said: But writing speeds should be unaffected when I do not have parity ON, right? Yes - you should get the writing speed of the disk you are currently writing to (as Unraid does not do striping). 1 Quote Link to comment
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