I have spent quite a lot of time looking through the forum to find more info on this. I have 6 x 3TB hard drives with data on them, I want to move it to my unRAID server. As I have a rackmount server I can install them in the drive caddies running on my LSI HBA as opposed to an external USB dock which I also have. I just presume internally on the HBA card is quicker than using USB. I don't need to write to the drives just remove data from them to the server and when it is done I will setup my unRAID parity drive and preclear these drives before adding to the server. Now I know I only need to read from the drives but I will still download and instal the latest ntfs-3g driver. I will mount hem but what Im unclear on is this. I want to place certain folders from the NTFS drives into certain disks on my unRAID server, not all just some. Is it just a case of when the share is mounted I use finder on my mac to drag the folders from the NTFS drives to say disk1 or disk2 on my unRAID server, or will this send the data to the server via my wireless macbook pro over the network to the unRAID server, or does it just send the data from the mounted NTFS drive directly to the unRAID disks. I can't seem to find any information on this other than using command line code to copy all the data over. I will have to install snap at some time so I can keep my unRAID OS USB key and my spare key in sync but will it benefit me installing it now.

 

Thanks

If you want to maximise performance then you need to run the commands directly on the unRAID server via a console/telnet session.    If you do it from a connected Mac/PC, then the data will go twice across the network - once to the PC/Mac and then back to unRAID. 

 

The easiest way to do this on unRAID if you are not familiar with Linux command line working is to use the 'mc' command (Midnight Commander) from a console/telnet session to give you an semi-graphical way of doing it.

I have no experience of working with linux command line but its very similar to MSDOS which I used to use years ago and I much prefer working using a CLI, but with lots of data to move I will give Midnight Commander a try as it may be easier, I can log into my KVM rather than telnet or I may create a share and just copy the whole drive to the server and then move files around to different discs using Mac OS X finder, or will that do the same thing as having a NTFS mount. thank you.