October 12, 201213 yr Question... My understanding is that UnRAID cannot "split" a file across multiple drives. For example, if there is a time machine file that is 300GB, it can't be split across two 256GB drives. However, what if I were to use software RAID to take two 256GB volumes and make them a single 512GB volume? It seems like if I used software RAID 0 in combination with this, I'd have a single 512GB volume that could then fit the 300GB file. Can someone confirm? Thanks!
October 12, 201213 yr Based on you naming 256GB and 512GB disks I'm assuming you're using SSDs? Why don't you just use a large standard hard drive for very large files like the one you've mentioned. What you're proposing should be possible but if one of those drives fails you'll loose the data on both of them. Seems like just using one larger disk would make much more sense.
October 13, 201213 yr You can do "Using hardware RAID in combination with UnRAID". Some on the forum have done this. I don't think you can combine regular SW raid with unRAID SW raid simultaneously.
October 13, 201213 yr You can do "Using hardware RAID in combination with UnRAID". Some on the forum have done this. I don't think you can combine regular SW raid with unRAID SW raid simultaneously. Didn't even notice he said software RAID. You're right, you can't.
October 13, 201213 yr If you had both SSDs added to unRAID as individual drives, limited to one TM share using user shares, unRAID should split up the sparsebundles across the two drives.
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