May 22, 20197 yr Haven't added a drive for a few years and it seems the guides / forums have been revamped and I can't find things any longer... Anyway, adding a drive, it's almost done pre-clearing. I remember a way to add the drive quickly to the array without needing to do another format/zeroing and not need to rebuild parity... Did that exist, or am I crazy?
May 22, 20197 yr Community Expert 3 minutes ago, AaronJAnderson said: Haven't added a drive for a few years and it seems the guides / forums have been revamped and I can't find things any longer... Anyway, adding a drive, it's almost done pre-clearing. I remember a way to add the drive quickly to the array without needing to do another format/zeroing and not need to rebuild parity... Did that exist, or am I crazy? If you assogn a pre-cleared drive to the array then it gets added to the array the minute the array is started. As a pre-cleared disk does not affect parity. At that point it will show as unmountable and there will be a check box to format it. You should select that and let Unraid format the disk (which only takes a few minutes). When that completes it is ready to use.
May 22, 20197 yr Author Just now, itimpi said: If you assogn a pre-cleared drive to the array then it gets added to the array the minute the array is started. As a pre-cleared disk does not affect parity. At that point it will show as unmountable and there will be a check box to format it. You should select that and let Unraid format the disk (which only takes a few minutes). When that completes it is ready to use. Cool thanks! I remember it being fairly easy I just didn't remember exactly how it worked. Thanks again!
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