November 15, 201312 yr This is just me thinking. I have A PLUS key right now and have all of my hard drive slots filled up. I am now moving all of my drives to bigger 3tb drives as I need space and that got me thinking about a few of the 1tb drives that I have pulled out of my unraid. The mother board that I am using does have a hardware raid function. So I was wondering if I took the 3 1tb drives that I have and put them into a hardware raid on the motherboard before unraid boots up would it see it as one drive? IE I would not have another 3tb drive?
November 15, 201312 yr If it's a true hardware RAID controller that will work; but most motherboard-based controllers are hybrid controllers. Very simple way to find out ... just create a 3TB RAID with your motherboard controller; then boot to UnRAID and see if it "sees" a new 3TB drive or if it shows the individual drives. If it sees the array, it will work fine.
November 15, 201312 yr Maybe its different now but the raid function on the MBs I'm familiar with are really Software raids in that you can't boot from them and the OS needs software installed in order to read it.
November 15, 201312 yr Also known as FakeRAID. Unless you're dealing with enterprise class hardware with a real RAID controller, it's probably a simple FakeRAID device. It will work or it won't.
November 20, 201312 yr Author I would have to agree that it would be a fakeRaid, but still it loads before the OS starts up.... So I will give it a try when I replace my last 1tb drive and will return and report!
November 20, 201312 yr Currently, the only hardware raid controller unRAID 's OS sees as drives are Areca and 3Ware sata raid controllers.
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