Hi all

I am a total newbie to unraid & linux, but I had so many streaming issues with windows home server that I have now decided to make the move to unraid.

I have built my 1st unraid box with 3x 2tb Hitachi drives. All seems ok (apart from a slight usb reboot loop issue when using larger (2Gb +) flash drives)...

My main use is for media streaming to windows clients - I use MyMovies to manage the front/back end. Works very well for me & others...

My data is largely DVDs ripped to Video_ts folders and BluRay ripped to iso files. WHS used to (on a regular basis - although some days it was OK!) stutter and freeze when playing bluray movies - looking at the stats, it would slow to a crawl (600kb/s or lower) for a while and then picked up again - my research indicated that a process called DE migrator was largely to blame - this moves/spreads data across drives at random / uncontrollable intervals. But my whs system seemed slow by any standard - much slower than others on whs, using mymovies. I had enough and decided to make the change to unraid.

I am now in copying my data from the whs to the unraid box - about 5.6 tb. My question is, in order to speed up the bulk copying from whs, is it ok turn off parity while I copy, in order to speed up disk writes, and then sync when the BIG copy is done? I know I won't have parity protection (1 disk failure) until I sync, but I am not bothered about that for now, as I have all the data duplicated on whs box anyway.

I plan to remove the drives from the whs box eventually (when I am happy with the data, and the bullet-proof tests on the new unraid box) and add them to the unraid box.

Is what I am doing OK or will it cause problems later??

Thanks

K

You can do as you said.

 

Joe L.