December 8, 20232 yr I am preparing my Unraid build, to replace my ancient Windows Home Server. My (newbie) question concerns the parity drive. If I future-proof the build and buy a LA-A-RGE parity drive, to combine with my much smaller older drives, will the excess space on the parity drive be available to include in the array, or can the parity drive only be used exclusively for parity data?
December 8, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution You can always replace parity with a larger disk when needed and reuse old parity for Data. Have you tested your old drives? Each disk in the array must be reliably read to reliably rebuild a disk. Parity by itself can recover nothing.
December 8, 20232 yr Author 6 minutes ago, trurl said: You can always replace parity with a larger disk when needed and reuse old parity for Data. Aha, that I did not know, that's useful! Have you tested your old drives? Each disk in the array must be reliably read to reliably rebuild a disk. Parity by itself can recover nothing. They are in my WHS now and are well behaved, plus I see I can check them during the Unraid install, so I'm hoping I will be OK.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.