January 24, 20251 yr Hi, This is more a sanity check and less of an actual problem! I know of RAID but never worked with it in a home setting, and certainly not Unraid but adding drives on the fly seemed promising. I have 5 identical existing harddrives with data currently inside a machine that has Unraid 6.12.15 installed and running. I am accessing it through local network gui. I had managed to move data around to free up Drive 1 to seed the new array. Meanwhile I setup a new share called "Primary Network Drive". This particular share has Export set to "Enabled" under SMB, since I primarily deal with Windows in my house. All default settings other than 50GB minimum free space required. It is set to " In order to facilitate a local transfer I installed the plugins "Dynamix File Manager" and "Unassigned Devices". Once I mounted Drive 2, I moved its data to the Array or what is basically Drive 1. When that was done I formatted and added Drive 2 into the Array. Drive 3 is currently transferring data into "mnt/user0/Primary Network Drive". Rinse and Repeat for Drives 4 and 5 --------------------------------- What I am not terribly sure is how the array is managed from this point on. When I finish Drive 3's data transfer, do I make that one the Parity Drive? Does the array automatically rearrange data at some point so that it exists on all existing drives in some form? Or is the data exactly how it was transferred plus the parity drive? Once I'm finished building the array, I am assuming that all future data going into the array will be automatically managed and parted out as the drives in the array begin to fill up evenly. Thank you
January 25, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution 9 hours ago, Rosenthal said: Or is the data exactly how it was transferred plus the parity drive? This. 9 hours ago, Rosenthal said: Once I'm finished building the array, I am assuming that all future data going into the array will be automatically managed and parted out as the drives in the array begin to fill up evenly. That will depend on the set allocation method
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.