November 17, 201213 yr So I have been stockpiling drives and now I have enough to really do a large server/jbod box/something to hold all my crap...LOL I really want to try unRAID but to be honest I am still unsure what all will be needed so I will list what I have so far to experiment with. 8 - 3TB Seagate HDDs...but these are waiting for me to actually figure out how to do this unRAID with. 6 - 2TB random HDDs that I want to use to learn the unRAID with. 2 - Mediasonic 4 bay enclosures (non-Raid boxes) 1- Mediasonic 8 bay enclosure (non RAID box) 1 - Old Compaq Pesario desktop I can strip if need be 1 - Acer desktop that I use for my HTPC with XBMC. It is running Vista Home basic 32bit. I can buy an OS if need be also. I have been reading up on unRAID and it looks like it needs a seperate box of some sort for the drives to go into but I don't think I will be able to use the Mediasonic boxes for that so I could very easily strip down the old compaq for that purpose. I just don't really know where to start. For what it's worth these are the requirements (wishes) I am looking for. 1. Easy set-up and easy to maintain. 2. If a drive takes a dump on me I can drop in another in it's place and my data will still be preserved, recovered, back where it was. 3. Hopefully I can use the Mediasonic boxes I have, but if not they can become my offline backups every so often. Although I am willing to purchase more drives or whatever else I need. Thanks in advance.
November 17, 201213 yr With respect to your question number 2: This is what unraid does, even a bit more, your disk will be rebuild but all data on the failed drive remains available due to the parity fallback system. You can remove a complete drive and not even notice it.. Your other questions are releated to your build. easiest thing you can do is: put the two play drives in you desktop download the free unraid version create flashdrive boot Now you have unraid, there is nothing more to it.. There is a remote chance that you're hardware might not work but that is a rare thing.
November 17, 201213 yr Go ahead, try it. It doesn't hurt. If you want to add 3 TB disks I recommend to start with version 5.0 RC8.
November 17, 201213 yr Author With respect to your question number 2: This is what unraid does, even a bit more, your disk will be rebuild but all data on the failed drive remains available due to the parity fallback system. You can remove a complete drive and not even notice it.. Your other questions are releated to your build. easiest thing you can do is: put the two play drives in you desktop download the free unraid version create flashdrive boot Now you have unraid, there is nothing more to it.. There is a remote chance that you're hardware might not work but that is a rare thing. Excuse my newbness....LOL Is there any way to use the Mediasonic enclosures with the unRAID. I am under the impression that it needs an enclosure that can be booted seperately but I don't think that is possible with these.
November 17, 201213 yr Do you have a link to those enclosures? Are they eSATA or USB? unraid is booted of a USB stick and can work with eSATA enclosures.
November 17, 201213 yr With respect to your question number 2: This is what unraid does, even a bit more, your disk will be rebuild but all data on the failed drive remains available due to the parity fallback system. You can remove a complete drive and not even notice it.. Your other questions are releated to your build. easiest thing you can do is: put the two play drives in you desktop download the free unraid version create flashdrive boot Now you have unraid, there is nothing more to it.. There is a remote chance that you're hardware might not work but that is a rare thing. Excuse my newbness....LOL Is there any way to use the Mediasonic enclosures with the unRAID. I am under the impression that it needs an enclosure that can be booted seperately but I don't think that is possible with these. No prob... You do not need "seperate bootable enclosures", basically you just need to have a pc with a lot of SATA (or even PATA) connectors... So if you want to use external enclosures you just to make sure they can hook up to your motherboard somehow... Thats all..
November 17, 201213 yr Author Do you have a link to those enclosures? Are they eSATA or USB? unraid is booted of a USB stick and can work with eSATA enclosures. I use these enclosures with USB 3.0 This is the 4 Bay link....http://ain.mediasonic.ca/store/product_info.php?cPath=71&products_id=234 This is the 8 Bay link....http://ain.mediasonic.ca/store/product_info.php?cPath=72&products_id=258
November 17, 201213 yr Author No prob... You do not need "seperate bootable enclosures", basically you just need to have a pc with a lot of SATA (or even PATA) connectors... So if you want to use external enclosures you just to make sure they can hook up to your motherboard somehow... Thats all.. Can I hook them up thru USB 3.0??? Current HTPC has no free sata connectors inside.
November 17, 201213 yr No prob... You do not need "seperate bootable enclosures", basically you just need to have a pc with a lot of SATA (or even PATA) connectors... So if you want to use external enclosures you just to make sure they can hook up to your motherboard somehow... Thats all.. Can I hook them up thru USB 3.0??? Current HTPC has no free sata connectors inside. No. If you are just starting with unRAID, my best recommendation is to plan on using a dedicated computer (MB, PS, case and HD's). unRAID is not an addon to any other operating system. It is a complete server solution. Just about any CPU will work for basic unRAID.
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