Hello guys,

 

I'm very new here and have set up my array correctly with some new drives. I'm transitioning my system over from a Synology NAS and the drive that has ALL of my media on it is currently installed in the new machine, with the drives that are in the array.

 

So my array is sitting there nicely and my 6TB Media drive is sitting there unmounted. I can't figure out how to transfer the files from this old drive on to the array so that this 6TB can then be formatted and included in the array.

 

I've found some tutorials that are quite dated that are using NTFS system, but the Media drive is currently listed as a "Linux Filesystem".

 

Other threads recommend S.N.A.P, which has been deprecated.

 

Any ideas?

I am assuming that at this point the 6TB has noT been assigned to the array (which is how you want it).    You should then install the Unassigned Devices plugin to handle moujting it in unRAID.

You should then install the Unassigned Devices plugin to handle moujting it in unRAID.

 

Unfortunately it seems that the "Linux Filesystem" isn't recognised by Unassigned Devices as it is a collection of drives that need to be packed before being mounted? Apparently mdadm is useful for this purpose but isn't available on the UnRaid command line

Are you saying that the disk does not contain a self-contained file system?  If so then that complicates things.  The mdadm tool is normally used to manage an array of disks.

It's a bit strange - It's listing itself as sdb1, sdb2 and sdb3 when looking at it with fdisk -l. None of those can be individually mounted with the mount command.

 

It's coming from a Synology device which organises the disks into "Volumes".

 

I'm thinking it may be easier to put it back in to the Synology device and transfer it over ssh with mc. Will take days though.

It's a bit strange - It's listing itself as sdb1, sdb2 and sdb3 when looking at it with fdisk -l. None of those can be individually mounted with the mount command.

 

It's coming from a Synology device which organises the disks into "Volumes".

 

I'm thinking it may be easier to put it back in to the Synology device and transfer it over ssh with mc. Will take days though.

As long as the network connection is end to end Gb capable, it's the same speed as doing it locally.

As long as the network connection is end to end Gb capable, it's the same speed as doing it locally.

 

It's maxing out at 15MB/s - Will just have to have it transfer for several days I'm guessing

As long as the network connection is end to end Gb capable, it's the same speed as doing it locally.

 

It's maxing out at 15MB/s - Will just have to have it transfer for several days I'm guessing

Since 100Mbps would be limited to 11MB/s, it follows that the network is NOT your bottleneck. Do transfers from your other machines to unraid go any faster? Depending on what specific model disks are in use, and how they are connected (HBA, motherboard, etc) 15 may be all you can expect. Remember parity writes consume roughly half of raw disk bandwidth. (Give or take, very rough approximation) Older 2TB disks all connected through a PCI controller would be even slower than what you are seeing.