Hi,

 

Does unRAID have to be run from a flash drive or can it be installed on and run from any bootable HDD? I realise dedicating a whole HDD to this is a bit wasteful but we are considering unRAID for use with a server leased from 100TB with 12x3 TB HDDs and do not have the opportunity to use a flash drive there.

 

Could we use 1HDD for unRAID, 1 for parity and 10 for data? Or are there more efficient ways of doing this?

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

do not have the opportunity to use a flash drive there.

Without a flash drive or USB media reader with a unique GUID, there is no way to license unraid, so you would be stuck with the free version, and the limits imposed on it. Unraid can be installed to a hard drive, but the license is tied to a unique GUID read from USB.

As long as you have access to the machine, you can put an USB-device inside with one of those short internal-external-USB cables, if it can't be put on the outside.

 

I also don't know of many machines that don't have a USB.  The SanDisk cruzer fit only stick out about 5mm, no bigger than those really small bluetooth adapters.

 

This part doesn't make much sense without further details:

"considering unRAID for use with a server leased from 100TB with 12x3 TB HDDs"

Visualization or some sort of partitioning?

 

I would recommend a bit more details.