Is this possible when configuring a new server?

[JackBauer]

 

I just got two of those 2TB Seagate drives for my new build.

 

(Everything is working so far - just no USB dongle yet to setup unraid)

 

I don't think I want either of the Seagate's to be my parity drive...  Instead I'd like to use one of the two Samsung F3's I have in other machines.  However I need to move data on those HD's onto the unraid server to do that...

 

Here's what I'd like to do...

 

1. Install both seagate's with no parity drive, and pre-clear them.

2. Copy data from my Samsung F3's to one or both of those Seagate's.

3. Move at least one Samsung to the unraid box, format it, preclear it...

4. Make it the parity drive. 

5. Build the parity

 

Is that possible to do like that? 

[Joe L.]

Yes... you can do it that way.  Since the only copy of your data will be on the new drives in the unRAID server, I suggest copying the files to both drives.  That way, you have a copy even if one drive were to fail in your process of migration.

[JackBauer]

You know that is really great advice.

 

Thank you for that

 

I probably should find a linux file compare (by crc?) to compare the two copies to be sure no corruption in copying....

[Joe L.]

You know that is really great advice.

 

Thank you for that

 

I probably should find a linux file compare (by crc?) to compare the two copies to be sure no corruption in copying....

You can use either the

sum

or

md5sum

programs to compute checksums.