How to use RAIDz1 from the very beginning?

[JaviPas]

I've just built my little homelab with three 10TB SATA drives and I'm new to Unraid. I know there's already support for ZFS and I'd like to setup the drives with RAIDz1 but afaik I can't do it from the GUI. I've just setting up everything, so... is it possible to configure my system with that RAIDz1 config? (two drives usable, one for fault tolerance). I think I must do it from the terminal but... how? are there any guides on this?

[JorgeB]

10 hours ago, JaviPas said:

but afaik I can't do it from the GUI.

You can do it from the GUI by creating a pool, but note that currently you need at least one data device assigned to the array, it can be an old flash drive.

[JaviPas]

Thanks (¿Gracias? Por tu nombre pareces español ) Yes, I've done that and the new pool seems to be exactly what I was looking for. There's not much details about that: it shows that the pool with three 10TB drives has an available storage of 19.8TB, zfs filesystem and three drives, so I guess it's running with RAIDz1 as I wanted.

 

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, JaviPas said:

¿Gracias? Por tu nombre pareces español

Close but no, Portuguese 

 

You can click on the first pool device, then scroll down to the zpool status section and you'll see the pool config, but based on the stats it's raidz1.

 

 

 

 

[JaviPas]

 

I see. You're right, on the first part of data settings it shows "raidz", and then, down there, the pool status shows that "raidz1-0", so everything seems perfect.

 

Obrigado, Jorge!