June 29, 20251 yr Hi allI've had my unRAID server up and running for a while now and things have been going well. I'm fast running out of data space and while I do have some free sata ports, I'm running out of power connectors. A friend gave me a HP ProLiant Microserver which already has 3 drives in it. Going by how it looks, it appears to me that it's Gen 7. What's the best way to set this all up so the drives in this will be viewed to my unRAID server as the same as the drives which are in the unRAID server? I hope that makes sense. I would like the drives to be part of the array and can take advantage of the parity drive that I have. I have done some searching and found that the suggestion of setting the Microserver as another unRAID server and then mounting its drives on my main unRAID server, but I don't know if that is the best way to move forward, so thought I'd ask all you experts here who know far more than me!Keen to hear your thoughts! Thanks in advance!
June 29, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution 6 hours ago, HomerJ said:What's the best way to set this all up so the drives in this will be viewed to my unRAID server as the same as the drives which are in the unRAID server? I hope that makes sense. I would like the drives to be part of the array and can take advantage of the parity drive that I have.If I understand what you are asking, you can't do that, at most you could add those disks as SMB shares, of course, the microserver would need to be running its own OS, Unraid or or not.
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