tried posting in pre-sale report...but there were crickets...trying here:

 

I am considering unRaid as a new network appliance.  I am really most interested in having it run SageTV now that it is open source and the SageTV open source developer community seems most focus on enabling it to run on an unRaid server.  I don't need unRaid's raid feature, as I have a spare Areca 1680-16 RAID card. 

 

I saw some posts about using Areca cards to give you more sata ports but, I am wondering if I can just let my Areca card manage the RAID6 array and just expose it as a single large disk to the unRaid OS?  If the answer is yes and it will just treat this as a 1 Port, single data disk, then great.  But will it instead see it as 8-16 ports if I have that many devices in the Areca Array?  Lastly, if I expand the Areca RAID 6 array by adding more disks, will unRaid be all well and good when the "single" RAID6 data disk grows from 10-->14 TB or will it ignore the additional capacity, or worse some how stop working?

 

thanks,

 

mv

that was only 5 hours ago. impatient much?

1 hour ago, jmv said:

tried posting in pre-sale report...but there were crickets...trying here:

 

I am considering unRaid as a new network appliance.  I am really most interested in having it run SageTV now that it is open source and the SageTV open source developer community seems most focus on enabling it to run on an unRaid server.  I don't need unRaid's raid feature, as I have a spare Areca 1680-16 RAID card. 

 

I saw some posts about using Areca cards to give you more sata ports but, I am wondering if I can just let my Areca card manage the RAID6 array and just expose it as a single large disk to the unRaid OS?  If the answer is yes and it will just treat this as a 1 Port, single data disk, then great.  But will it instead see it as 8-16 ports if I have that many devices in the Areca Array?  Lastly, if I expand the Areca RAID 6 array by adding more disks, will unRaid be all well and good when the "single" RAID6 data disk grows from 10-->14 TB or will it ignore the additional capacity, or worse some how stop working?

 

thanks,

 

mv

 

I have been using an Areca ARC-1200 as a RAID-0 parity for years. It works fine. I basically use 2 7200 RPM 4T drives and it creates a slightly larger than 8T, very fast, RAID0 volume.

 

I would think that you would be able to define a RAID-6 array, have it look like a single drive to unRAID, set it as "disk1" with no parity, and it would do what you want.

 

See the post below for some information on configuring unRAID for an Areca. You would be able to run smart reports on the individual disks in the array if you set it up properly. Newer firmware versions may not require some of these configurations - I am not sure.

 

Not sure how well Dynamics supports Areca cards.

 

 

thank you for your very helpful reply...I'll build it and report back!