March 28, 20179 yr Hey Unradiers,. Im curious on the topic of installing it on a SSD rather than a USB drive, For a couple of reasons... 1. Thumb Drives don't have great life span. 2. Install on Mirror Raid. Im cautious of going into a production environment with UNRAID on a USB drive. What happens if the drive fails? Do I loose my Shares & VM's ? or its simply a matter of plugging in a new thumb drive and its back up and running? Thanks
March 28, 20179 yr a place to start: https://lime-technology.com/replace-key/ so, make a backup, move key registration over, back in business. I have 7-10 year old usb drives that are still (slowly) going strong. I have 2 year old ssd's that are in the trash can.
March 28, 20179 yr 23 minutes ago, phillipsgarage said: 1. Thumb Drives don't have great life span. The flash is only used to boot and store settings. unRaid runs completely in RAM and doesn't access the flash unless you change a setting. FYI, most use cases of actual storage space on the flash is around 500Meg. 24 minutes ago, phillipsgarage said: What happens if the drive fails? You make another boot flash, and copy (you have a backup) of your .key file from the original flash to the replacement. When booted up, the UI will transfer the registration over to the new flash 25 minutes ago, phillipsgarage said: Do I loose my Shares & VM's ? no 26 minutes ago, phillipsgarage said: or its simply a matter of plugging in a new thumb drive and its back up and running? Yes
March 28, 20179 yr Welcome to the forum! You're not the first being concerned about the thumb drive linked license. Of course you can move the content off the stick. Start here. @1812 Quote I have 2 year old ssd's that are in the trash can. I'm scared! What make? Edited March 28, 20179 yr by Fireball3
May 7, 20233 yr So i thought bout this. However I have been just restore or transfer license to new flash i did forced fail test to see process moving to another flash drive. It was quite easy tranfer license. I use flash drives that are water proof, xray proof, heat proof. I have yet to have one fail thankfully. I have some unraid server i build for residential client of mine 7 years and going strong. I also easily move the host os to another chasis if i was have cpu/ motherboard failure. I like have usb to able move to another chassis. I have done this as upgraded better components , larger drives as my library grows. quality of files become 4k and use up more space. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BPHN7LV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
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