Hi,

 

Newbie here with what might seem a strange question. I am proving the cost benefits of a particular upgrade path, ie cost per Gig for storage.

 

The customer wants the initial cost to be at an absolute minimum without compromising the upgrade route with the intention to move to a licensed configuration with 6(7) disks asap and eventually a full licence to enable AD integration. Customer currently uses a Buffalo Terrastation in RAID 5 with 1.6GB of usable space.

 

The question is: Can unRaid work with an array of just two disks, one for parity and one for data? This way I can start with 2 x 2TB disks (2TB available for storage) and all future expansion can be by using 2TB disks getting the benefits of the cheaper cost per TB.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Nigel

Hi,

 

Newbie here with what might seem a strange question. I am proving the cost benefits of a particular upgrade path, ie cost per Gig for storage.

 

The customer wants the initial cost to be at an absolute minimum without compromising the upgrade route with the intention to move to a licensed configuration with 6(7) disks asap and eventually a full licence to enable AD integration. Customer currently uses a Buffalo Terrastation in RAID 5 with 1.6GB of usable space.

 

The question is: Can unRaid work with an array of just two disks, one for parity and one for data? This way I can start with 2 x 2TB disks (2TB available for storage) and all future expansion can be by using 2TB disks getting the benefits of the cheaper cost per TB.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Nigel

Yes. unRAID can work with only two disks. (one data, one for parity)

 

It can also work with just one disk (one data, no parity) but with no parity protection from a disk failure.

 

Joe L.

Joe,

 

Thanks for confirming this. It made sense but didn't want to assume...

 

best regards

 

Nigel