Rix001 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I attempted to reuse an old PC and turn it into a NAS. Although successful with UNRAID this attempt was doomed to fail as my only use of the NAS was as a server for my PLEX media and the old processor would not transcode the video files. My kids bought me a stand alone Synology NAS (Great Kids) and I decided to use the Synology software to manage the array. I had installed UNRAID on a new 32GB thumb drive and I would like to know if, or how, to reuse the drive normally. Is it possible or is it a throw away? It sure does not want to be formatted in any way, is it maybe write protected? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Unraid does nothing unusual to the flash drive. You should be able to format it just like any other flash drive, and if you cannot this suggests it might be failing. Quote Link to comment
Rix001 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 UNRAID as listed in the instructions, uses a special utility just to make the drive bootable and configure it to work loading the program. I find it hard to believe that the drive is failing, it was purchased brand new and used a total of two weeks. I have tried to format in Windows 10, and thru the Disk Manager as well as EaseUS and two Kingston third party programs, none will allow formatting. If any thumb drive you use for UNRAID becomes unusable forever except for UNRAID, OK. I would love to hear from someone who has actually reused a thumb drive that has been processed for use with UNRAID. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 39 minutes ago, Rix001 said: I would love to hear from someone who has actually reused a thumb drive that has been processed for use with UNRAID. I did, many times. Quote Link to comment
Rix001 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 OK, so all you had to do was format it and you could use it again for data storage and transport? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Yep, like mentioned Unraid doesn't do anything special to the flash drive. Quote Link to comment
Rix001 Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Thank you all for your help Quote Link to comment
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