Hi all,

 

I am new to linux and unraid..I've been experimenting and unraid looks promising. I am about to buy a pro license but I have a few questions:

 

I am have a 16 bay build and upon assembly looking at youtube videos all they do is put all the drives in then power up the machine.. 

 

Question:

1. How can I make sa drive " A " as my first bay aka bay 1. say if the server is powered off

2. If say a drive fails how can I identify it and make sure that I am removing the correct defective disk?

3. If I already have a operating server how can I do question 1 " move around the assignments ? " if the server is on?

 

 

Thanks,

Paul

Please remember this really important item:

unRAID identifies disks by their serial number as returned by whatever hardware it is connected to.

So what this means is that for most hardware and connections, the serial number printed on the disk is the same one unRAID sees.

 

• so with this is mind, when you build the array physically, you can take note of what drive (by the serial) is in bay 1, etc. so you can assign it as you want.when unRAID is booted up and you create the array.
• Also, depending on the connections of your drives, they might be listed (/dev/sdX) in sequence but that can change ( when new drives are added )
• when a drive fails, the same serial number and the mapping you did in #1 becomes the guide. Don't worry when a drive gives, unRAID will tell you which one it is by the serial as well.
• you don't "move" assignments, but if you absolutely must, you will need to build a new config and tell unRAID to accept the data on the disks as valid
• As a rule of thumb, you don't move stuff while the OS is running unless: the array is stopped AND you have hotswap bays for your drives.

Attempting to "move" drives around in any other situation is asking for data loss.

Edited August 23, 20187 yr by ken-ji

Tnx! got yah. That is helpful.