so i have 3 drives can i put them in raid? if so how do u do that in unraid, lsi card,somthing else, or should i leave the drives seperate there only 80gb also how does the size of the parity drive work does it need to be larger as large or what?? thanks alot!!

Unraid isn't RAID.  

 

Read here...

https://lime-technology.com/network-attached-storage/

what? no i ment umm i've herd of people doing it before using unraid but combining there drives as one in raid...maybe i'm not explaining it wrong just say so

 

Yep, JBOD, like someone showed in this video that linked to your last post on this topic...

 

Why don't you just keep the queries to one thread?  

 

 

 

WOW so sorry i check the bell icon every day and i figured they werent answered lol sorry..i'll learn to check them myself from now on..stupid me lol wow thanks for linking them lol again sorry my bad

Just FYI, the bell icon will only show you notifications from topics that you follow by default. At the top of each post, there is a Follow button. You need to click it to be notified of any activity within that thread. There is also little switch at the bottom left of reply boxes that let you be notified of replies to you as well.

 

Hope that helps.

ohh alright thank you, i'm used to other forms where it tells you by default..so maybe you can help in a station i'm going to have i need to put a 2 drives on 2 different users, but one is on a sata 3 port and the other is a sata 2 port, would the easiest way would be just to install parity and user one drive in sata 3 assign that and do everything, power down array then install second user HDD and apply settings or is there a way i can see what drive is attached to what port kinda like whats seen in bios? if this dosent make sense just say so! Thanks!!

1 hour ago, platyskill said:

if this dosent make sense just say so

Well, not really...

 

But if I understand your question - it's easier to install all your drives at once and then configure the array.  You can do it in steps, but if you have the option of doing it all at once, give that a try.

right, thanks! idk there's prolly a app which gives me a ton of info about the drives and what there plugged into..if not i can just do it in steps, no biggie, also for parity how many drives do i have to have for it work i would only be using 3 total drives 2 for data and one for parity, been looking around and i keep seeing 3 data and 1 parity..thanks!!

You need 1 parity and you can add as many drives as you want then as data. You can have 2 parity drives and as many data drives as you want as well (I think the limit is 30) Difference between 1 or 2 parity drives is how many drives can fail at the same time before you suffer some loss of data.

sweet so there's no set "u must have this many data drives to parity drives"? yeah i'm trying to learn it from the space invader guy on youtube, and say u put 31 drives in your massive system with 2 parity drives will unraid just not detect them or u get a error?

I would suggest that you read this section of the User Manual.  I will tell you how parity is used in unRAID.

 

   https://wiki.lime-technology.com/UnRAID_Manual_6#Network_Attached_Storage

yeah that dosent answer my question lol...

If you put 33 drives in a system, and start assigning them as data and parity drives you'll hit the license limitation of a Pro license after assigning 28 data drives and 2 parity drives.

6 hours ago, platyskill said:

right, thanks! idk there's prolly a app which gives me a ton of info about the drives and what there plugged into..if not i can just do it in steps, no biggie, also for parity how many drives do i have to have for it work i would only be using 3 total drives 2 for data and one for parity, been looking around and i keep seeing 3 data and 1 parity..thanks!!

So in general, you can do One drive as Parity and Two or More drives for the Storage (the only limitation is your license or max SATA ports on you motherboard). You do not need more than one parity drive as Unraid is designed specifically to allow you to achieve this. One important thing to note is that the parity drive needs to be EQUAL or GREATER in size than ANY of the storage drives used to allow you to parity.

 

So if you have three 4TB drives, then you can have one 4tb parity and two 4tb storage to give you a total of 8tb of parity-protected storage.

 

In the same sense, if you have two 6tb drives and one 4tb drive, then you must use one 6tb drive as parity and the 4tb and 6tb drives as storage to give you a total of 10tb of parity-protected storage.

 

You only need two parity drives for additional redundancy, in case your parity drive fails. Even in that case, as long as your storage array is intact, all you need to do is replace the drive and rebuild the party.

 

I, myself have 5 disks for storage and 1 parity.

 

In terms of naming and identifying the drives,

I made myself an excel spreadsheet with all of my drives with their identification (model and serial numbers) as well as a physical label on my rack. I connected all of the drives at once and booted unraid and selected the respective drives that I wanted. Ideally, you want your newest one to be the parity drive (just because of how often it is used).

 

If you can, let us know your drive config if you have any other questions. 

 

 

On 9/29/2017 at 10:19 PM, lankanmon said:

So in general, you can do One drive as Parity and Two or More drives for the Storage (the only limitation is your license or max SATA ports on you motherboard). You do not need more than one parity drive as Unraid is designed specifically to allow you to achieve this. One important thing to note is that the parity drive needs to be EQUAL or GREATER in size than ANY of the storage drives used to allow you to parity.

 

So if you have three 4TB drives, then you can have one 4tb parity and two 4tb storage to give you a total of 8tb of parity-protected storage.

 

In the same sense, if you have two 6tb drives and one 4tb drive, then you must use one 6tb drive as parity and the 4tb and 6tb drives as storage to give you a total of 10tb of parity-protected storage.

 

You only need two parity drives for additional redundancy, in case your parity drive fails. Even in that case, as long as your storage array is intact, all you need to do is replace the drive and rebuild the party.

 

I, myself have 5 disks for storage and 1 parity.

 

In terms of naming and identifying the drives,

I made myself an excel spreadsheet with all of my drives with their identification (model and serial numbers) as well as a physical label on my rack. I connected all of the drives at once and booted unraid and selected the respective drives that I wanted. Ideally, you want your newest one to be the parity drive (just because of how often it is used).

 

If you can, let us know your drive config if you have any other questions. 

 

 

oh thats right i can view the..serial name of each drive and how big they are and a few things, sweet forgot about that lol..thanks! wasent there a wanted feature for 3 parity drives in the other fourm, there was some tech reason why it couldent be dont thou. thanks!