My last drive finished its preclear this morning, so I'm planning to start adding disks to my array this afternoon. Considering it's taken two weeks to get data migrated off my old server and to preclear my disks, I don't suppose I'm in any hurry to get my data on the server. Here's my plan so far based heavily on the configuration wiki.

 

1) I'm planning to add a parity drive first since there's no point in being in any hurry at this point.

2) I'll add my remaining 3, precleared drives.

3) Create my shares. I'm still deciding on a directory structure.

4) I'll mount my data drives and copy my data to my array one drive at a time. I don't have another functioning windows machine ATM, so this is my only option for moving my data.

5) As my drives are emptied. I'll add them to my array.

6) At the end of another week, I should have my server up and running. 

 

I've been putting off purchasing the pro license in the event that 5.0 goes live, but I don't suppose there's really any point in waiting any longer. I'll probably do that and upgrade my license before I start adding data to my array.

 

At any rate, I'm really just excited about getting this thing running. I've been reading about unRAID since I found out WHS was removing Drive Extender, and I've finally taken the plunge. There is certainly a learning curve for someone unfamiliar with Linux, but it hasn't been as difficult as I expected (knock on wood).

If you are moving data within the machine from one drive to the other I would use rsync in this case.

 

I am note sure of the exact command but there is an rsync switch that will verify the data that it moves from one drive to the other to make sure it is a good copy.  I would also COPY the data and not do a move of the data... copy and verify is a little safer.

Good points! I was planning to copy in case of power outage or natural disaster mid transfer, but I had not thought to use rsync. I've used it in the past, but it's been a long time ago. I'll have to do some reading to make sure I use it properly.

 

Thanks for the tips!