December 13, 20187 yr I've been frustrated with Server 2016 lately and since I use no features from Server 2016 I have decided to try out Unraid. At the same time I have to address a failing drive I'm not sure how to handle the transition to Unraid. I will buy a 8TB drive that will be my parity drive but given how DrivePool scatters folder structures across drives I'm not sure how to best handle besides this... Do I have to have the parity drive already set up? I can fit most of my data on a 8TB drive so I was thinking of using this to... 1) Move everything over to what will be the parity drive temporarily 2) Move everything back to the drives after Unraid is setup 3) Build the parity drive I understand that during this process I may run into a freak issue and lose data (like say the 8TB drive failing on me) but not sure how to handle this besides buying another 8TB drive which I don't want to do. Does this seem reasonable? Edited December 13, 20187 yr by andyd
December 13, 20187 yr 14 minutes ago, andyd said: I understand that during this process I may run into a freak issue and lose data (like say the 8TB drive failing on me) but not sure how to handle this besides buying another 8TB drive which I don't want to do. Does this seem reasonable? I guess it could seem reasonable if you don't care about your data. Do you have backups of everything that is important and irreplaceable?
December 13, 20187 yr Author Of stuff that is really important...yes. Media I would not want to lose but I'm not going to lose my mind over it. I don't see any other way of managing it besides buying more same size drives which I can't justify the cost at this time. I guess what I wanted was to confirm that I can add the parity drive after moving files to the pool. Edited December 13, 20187 yr by andyd
December 13, 20187 yr 21 minutes ago, andyd said: 1) Move everything over to what will be the parity drive temporarily 2) Move everything back to the drives after Unraid is setup 3) Build the parity drive After you have completed this, you will still need those backups. Unraid parity is not a substitute.
December 13, 20187 yr Author 5 minutes ago, trurl said: After you have completed this, you will still need those backups. Unraid parity is not a substitute. Yes, I completely understand this. This is not me building a server for the first time. I've had a home server since the home HP microservers using WHS from back in the day where I ran the same risk. The parity drive will give me some redundancy as DrivePool did if a drive fails. I've also had two drives fail at the same time losing about 2TB data back during those WHS days. I know what the risks are but content I know that is important to me I have multiple backups of outside of the server. Don't get me wrong - I don't want to lose 8TB of media as I thought I did last night but it's not the end of the world if I do. Edited December 13, 20187 yr by andyd
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