well here is my question.

I currently have a free license 3HDD

2 x 2TB + Parity.

 

I also have another 2TB which is currently an NTFS windows drive with some data.

also I have several 1TB drives that I plan to move all data from to unRaid and drop them in the unRaid box

 

so  is it possible to mount and share an non array drive so it is visible to other computers on network?

 

my idea is that until I get the license for more drives (I am still debating what to get PLUS or PRO)

I want to take all my extra drives, preclear them and mount outside of array to be used as spares and temporary data hold. my main use of unraid is for media so that what I want to be protected and all.  but I also have some of the data that is not that important to worry about at this time

and I just want to be able to drop it on a precleared disk so I can format and preclear disk that currently holds that data.

 

so far I can only see disks that are part of array. any other is invisible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

so  is it possible to mount and share an non array drive so it is visible to other computers on network?

You can, but not from within the default unRAID management interface.

 

Easiest are probably the unMENU disk management page or the SNAP add-on.

Slightly more complicated would be individual mount commands in the config/go file and a custom entries in config/smb-extra.conf

 

Joe L.

Mount them under /mnt, then create a symlink to them from the flash mounted on /boot.