January 23, 200719 yr If I create a new server and put in 1 empty drive (for parity) and two other drives with data already on them, will the two data drives be formatted and lose all of the data that already exists on them? Or will the parity drive be formatted and created while the other 2 drives remain untouched?
January 23, 200719 yr If I create a new server and put in 1 empty drive (for parity) and two other drives with data already on them, will the two data drives be formatted and lose all of the data that already exists on them? Or will the parity drive be formatted and created while the other 2 drives remain untouched? If your two data drives each have a single reiserfs filesystem on them, you can simply calculate parity and be up and running. If they have NTFS or FAT filesystems, they must be cleared and re-formatted with a reiserfs filesystem before will be used by unRaid. unRaid will not format the drives without you clicking on a checkbox and asserting you want the drives reformatted. At one point Tom had asked if support for other file system types was high on the requested feature list. From what I remember, it was described as medium-low in priority. Performance, Security and Stability being higest on the list. So someday you might not need to re-format the drives... but for the forseeable future, you do. PS. The parity drive never needs to be formatted... only the data drives need forrmatting.
January 24, 200719 yr Author Is it safe to say that right now people have better results with a Pentium mb than with an AMD mb? Also are there better results with an AMD mb with one of the recommended IDE Controller cards?
January 24, 200719 yr Yes, use an Intel-based m/b (Pentium, Celeron, or Core 2), with ICH5/6/7 chipset. Use Promise controller (SATA300 TX4).
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