NoAccuracy Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Hi, I'm currently running the three combo which are simply installing to /mnt/user at the moment, which appears to be preventing the hard drives from spinning down. I would like to install these directly to the flash drive that is running unRAID on at the moment. Would it be fine to simply change the install path to the flash drive and install them there? Link to comment
lainie Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 It is possible to install these 3 programs to your unRAID flash drive, but recommended strongly not to do so. These programs would cause excessive reading / writing to the flash drive, causing it to stop working sooner than not doing so. When determining which NAS I wanted to use, I installed the free version of unRAID to an old USB stick I had lying around. I then setup all the plugins / extras (including these 3) to test it... it worked. Once I decided to purchase unRAID, I bought a new USB drive specifically for my unRAID license key. I now use a cache drive for all my plugins. If you have an unRAID license, the key is tied specifically to your USB key's unique ID. If that USB flash drive stops working, you will be without a working unRAID server until you either purchase a new one or go through a tech support process to try to get a new key for a new working flash drive. If you do not have a cache drive, try installing the programs to a specific disk share. Then only that one disk will stay spun up. * Edit - Even if you are using the free version of unRAID, if your unRAID flash drive stops working then you will lose any customizations or settings that were on the dead drive. Link to comment
NoAccuracy Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Thanks for the reply. I have considered installing them only to a specific disk share, but thought I may be able to get around it further by installing to a USB. I also considered installing to a second USB, but like you mentioned, I would prefer to avoid risking losing all my settings - specifically my Plex library - should that USB flash drive fail due to the excessive read/writes. Link to comment
lainie Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 A second USB drive might work. I don't have experience with using a 2nd USB drive with unRAID, but it seems possible. Others may be able to offer more pros & cons on this possibility. If you back up the 2nd USB drive that contains your plugins to somewhere on your array & the 2nd USB drive fails... You could get a new USB drive to replace it & copy the backed up settings onto it. The USB drive containing your unRAID license & setup would not be affected (as the heavy input/output would be restricted to the 2nd USB drive). You would need to remember to create a new backup of the 2nd USB drive onto the array (or whatever backup method you choose) each time you made a change. Not sure how long the drive would last... it would definitely create extra steps to maintain. Link to comment
dgaschk Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Use a rsync and a cron job to backup the flash to the array. Then when it dies you replace the flash and restore from backup. Link to comment
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