M/B broke. Move drives to new M/B & run without parity temporarily?

[jang430]

Hello all.  My motherboard broke down.  I have 5 drives.  The temporary motherboard I have has only 4 sata ports.  Can I temporarily put all drives (except parity) and run unraid? 

 

Will it work?

 

I understand the risks, and media on drives are not critical. 

 

HOpe to get a quick reply.  Thanks

[trurl]

Yes, you will have to do New Config and reassign all drives without the parity drive.

[jang430]

Am planning to do it as a temporary measure as I search for suitable M/B.  If new config, will it destroy any config in USB?  I need cache drive to be up and running, since apps are installed there.  As for parity, it's only for protection.

[SSD]

You would not have to do new config. You could just run with parity as a red ball. I am not 100% sure what new config would do relative to user shares, docker configuration, cache, etc. I think just running with parity red balled might be the easiest. Then, when you can again engage parity, you would simply rebuild it.

[jang430]

Will I be shown parity with red ball?  Since it's physically not connected?

[itimpi]

Will I be shown parity with red ball?  Since it's physically not connected?

Yes - because unRAID thinks it is still there at the 'logical' level.    However the array will start fine and be unprotected.

[jang430]

Thanks all