7.1.4, I don't run any parity drives, all 6 of my drives are 8TB SSD's and I have a 6TB USB attach drive I'd like to add a folder on it (or the entire drive) as a share.

None of the data is important and if it's ever lost, it's not a great problem.

USB is not recommended, but you can use it.

Thank you, I couldn’t find a way to do it so I currently have the USB disk attached through Unassigned Devices.

Can you walk me through what I need to do?

You can add it to the array or a new pool and a normal disk, note that if the array has parity, the disk will be cleared (wiped) on add.

Thank you,I will try.

On 10/17/2025 at 6:25 PM, JorgeB said:

You can add it to the array or a new pool and a normal disk, note that if the array has parity, the disk will be cleared (wiped) on add.

I have managed to format it XFS as per the rest of my SSD drives. I can't find a way to add it to the array however.

It appears under Unassigned Devices. I want it to be part of a specific share with 2 other array devices. Is this possible

19 minutes ago, Brucey7 said:

. I can't find a way to add it to the array however.

Not quite sure why you are having a problem with this. It is normally just a case of assigning it to a new slot in the array. Perhaps a screenshot of the Main tab might clear up what is your problem?

After it has been added you then control at the Individual user share level what drives the share is allowed to use.

3 hours ago, itimpi said:

Not quite sure why you are having a problem with this. It is normally just a case of assigning it to a new slot in the array. Perhaps a screenshot of the Main tab might clear up what is your problem?

After it has been added you then control at the Individual user share level what drives the share is allowed to use.

Here's a screenshot

4 hours ago, Brucey7 said:

It appears under Unassigned Devices. I want it to be part of a specific share with 2 other array devices. Is this possible

Do you want to keep it removable? If so no. If you want it permanently attached then either created a new pool for it or add it to the array. Unassigned devices can be shared but only individually, not merged with an unraid share.

Edited October 19, 2025Oct 19 by Kilrah

Nothing obvious in the screen shot.

Are you saying that when you stop the array you cannot add that device as disk7. If so, perhaps you can post diagnostics taken after attempting this so we can see why it is failing.

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Do you want to keep it removable? If so no. If you want it permanently attached then either created a new pool for it or add it to the array. Unassigned devices can be shared but only individually, not merged with an unraid share.

1 hour ago, itimpi said:

Nothing obvious in the screen shot.

Are you saying that when you stop the array you cannot add that device as disk7. If so, perhaps you can post diagnostics taken after attempting this so we can see why it is failing.

I have solved it, I had to increase the "Slots" on the Main tab. I think this is a new field and that's what threw me.

4 hours ago, Brucey7 said:

I think this is a new field and that's what threw m

That has always been there. Perhaps you reduced the count at some point in the past to ‘tidy’ things so that unused slots were not showing when the array is stopped.

7 hours ago, itimpi said:

That has always been there. Perhaps you reduced the count at some point in the past to ‘tidy’ things so that unused slots were not showing when the array is stopped.

More than likely.