Hi.

Im going to move the unRAID drives to a new computer but have a question about how to connect the drives.

The computer im using now as server was my workstation before my laptop and hade a lot of drives in it but i removed them all but keeped the cables connected. When i wanted to try unRAID and just plugged in 2 new drives (not paying any attention to sata port numbers)

Now i know more about unRAID and bought pro licenses. Just checked the cables and the first datadrive is connected to sataII:0 and the second to sataII:2. (not using paritydrive yet)

I know i should have connected them as 1 and 2 and saves 0 to parity.

 

Is there any problems to connect the drives to the same ports om the other motherboard, connect the parity drive to sataII:1 and a new drive to sataII:3 ?

 

Just happy that i didnt connected any drive to the fifth sata port (sataII:4) because the motherboard im going to use now only have 4 sata (0-3)

What would happen if i did that?

 

/Magnus

Hi.

Im going to move the unRAID drives to a new computer but have a question about how to connect the drives.

The computer im using now as server was my workstation before my laptop and hade a lot of drives in it but i removed them all but keeped the cables connected. When i wanted to try unRAID and just plugged in 2 new drives (not paying any attention to sata port numbers)

Now i know more about unRAID and bought pro licenses. Just checked the cables and the first datadrive is connected to sataII:0 and the second to sataII:2. (not using paritydrive yet)

I know i should have connected them as 1 and 2 and saves 0 to parity.

 

Is there any problems to connect the drives to the same ports om the other motherboard, connect the parity drive to sataII:1 and a new drive to sataII:3 ?

 

Just happy that i didnt connected any drive to the fifth sata port (sataII:4) because the motherboard im going to use now only have 4 sata (0-3)

What would happen if i did that?

 

/Magnus

It does not really make any difference at all.  Some will recommend you put the most heavily used drives on the disk controller on the motherboard, thinking it might have more bandwidth, but it really does not make much difference unless you are on older PCI bus hardware.

 

unRAID does not care where you put the drives.  It uses the model/serial number of the disk to find it on whatever port you have it connected.

It really does not matter what ports you use.. The ones on the motherboard are theoretically quicker but this not a bottleneck...

Sorry if i was unclear in my question. i was woundering about the order the disks should be connected to the sata ports on the two motherboards not if the drives should be connected to raid/sata card but thats really goot to know too.

 

But i guess i got a answer anyway. I can connect the drives in any order but i should assign them i the order that they are connected now? thats the only important thing?

 

 

 

Sorry if i was unclear in my question. i was woundering about the order the disks should be connected to the sata ports on the two motherboards not if the drives should be connected to raid/sata card but thats really goot to know too.

 

But i guess i got a answer anyway. I can connect the drives in any order but i should assign them i the order that they are connected now? thats the only important thing?

No, you misunderstood.

 

If you are using an existing flash drive to boot from you can assign the disks anywhere, in any order, to any disk controller.  (this is assuming you are using a recent 5.0 beta/rc release)

The disk assignment you've made  (and stored on the flash drive) are by model/serial number of the disk to logical slot in the array.    Not by disk controller, not by physical port.

 

What version of unRAID are you running?

Joe L.

Yes im going to use the same flashdrive and i upgraded from 4.7 to the latest 5.0 just 2 days ago.

Then it does not matter where you put the drives.