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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Thanks all