Unassigned Devices - Managing Disk Drives and Remote Shares Outside of The Unraid Array
Unassigned Devices Plugin
Unassigned Devices (UD) includes a lot of functionality and has become a bit complex. Please read the first and second post. You will find answers to most of your questions.
Note: You will need to install the Unassigned Devices Plus (UD+) plugin to enable HFS+ and APFS (Apple file formats) and exFAT (flash larger than 64MB) disk mounting, and to enable 'Destructive Mode' for formatting of some UD supported disk formats.
UD and
There is a change in SSD device partition alignment. The alignment on SSD devices partitioned with UD is now 1MiB. What this means is SSD devices formated with UD will not be compatible as either a cache or pool device on any version earlier that 6.9. If you format a SSD with UD, it will be compatible with 6.9 as a cache or pool device, but you cannot roll back to an earlier version of Unraid without Unraid wanting to format the device.
This is also a limitation wth Unraid. Any S
