Tatts4Life Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm looking to build a server for the first time soon and have a few questions. I hope they make sense since this is all new to me. So I have 2TB drive which is my main drive on my computer. I also have an empty 1TB drive and a 6TB drive that has close to 4TB's on it. I also have probably close to a TB of photos and music I want to back up. My question can I use the 6TB drive as my parity and buy a second 6TB drive to hold my data along with my other two drives? Or do I need to buy either an 8TB for parity or 4TB drives and use the 6TB for the parity? I guess what I'm asking is can the parity drive be equal in size as the others or do the drives need to be smaller then the parity? Link to comment
trurl Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm looking to build a server for the first time soon and have a few questions. I hope they make sense since this is all new to me. So I have 2TB drive which is my main drive on my computer. I also have an empty 1TB drive and a 6TB drive that has close to 4TB's on it. I also have probably close to a TB of photos and music I want to back up. My question can I use the 6TB drive as my parity and buy a second 6TB drive to hold my data along with my other two drives? Or do I need to buy either an 8TB for parity or 4TB drives and use the 6TB for the parity? I guess what I'm asking is can the parity drive be equal in size as the others or do the drives need to be smaller then the parity? The parity drive must be at least as large as the largest data drive. It doesn't have to be larger. You have another problem though. In order to use any of the drives with data on them in unRAID, they will have to be formatted by unRAID. Do you have backups? Link to comment
Tatts4Life Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Thanks for answering my question. And don't worry I know that the drives get formatted. So I will have to buy at least two drives to use in the server so I can transfer my stuff. Once I have everything moved from my drives to the server I'll strip those and use them in the server. I'll probably get a second 6tb drive for the parity, maybe a third just so I can transfer everything I have. Then when I move my windows 7 and programs to a SSD then I'll have that 2tb drive and my 1tb drive that is empty right now. What sucks is I didn't realize I would have so much on my 6tb drive because right now I don't have enough free space between all my other drives to empty that one. Link to comment
enetec Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 ... What sucks is I didn't realize I would have so much on my 6tb drive because right now I don't have enough free space between all my other drives to empty that one. Well... consider that you can start the array at first without a parity protecting it (not a very different situation that your actual one...) and, after trasferring your data to the array (even faster since of the lack of parity operations...), you can add a parity disk a make unRAID build parity to protect array on it. Link to comment
Tatts4Life Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Cool I think I know what I'm gonna do now. Now comes the task of picking out the hardware. I still haven't figured out the motherboard I need. So far my only requirements are an internal sub port so I don't have a usb dongle poking out of the case. Also I think it's called IPMI looks like something that might be something I would want. But that's stuff for a different thread. Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 There's lots of little adapters that allow you to use a USB stick on an internal USB socket. I have two different ones here, one is a cable with a plug on it, and one is a little PCB style one with two USB ports on it. The ones I have: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-Female-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header/dp/B000IV6S9S/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-Port-Motherboard-Header-Adapter/dp/B002GNU2V6/ I prefer the second one, it's neater. They just plug in to the normal USB headers on the motherboard, job jobbed. Link to comment
enetec Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 This instead could be a good external solution too... http://www.verbatim.it/it/prod/store-n-stay-nano-usb-drive-32gb-98130/?con=25 I've 8GB version and it has the needed valid serial for unRAID usage... Link to comment
heffe2001 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 This is what I use: Flash: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226463 USB Header: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200474 That header is the same as the 2nd one listed above, just from Newegg. The 16g Mushkin thumb drives are very small, decently fast, and work fine with Unraid's registration requirements. I have 2 of them, one as a backup in case the one I use for booting ever fails (both are registered for Pro so no worries there). While 16gb is definitely overkill for the boot drive with Unraid, I don't worry too much about downloading new releases through Dynamix, be a while before I fill that thing up.. Link to comment
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