My parity drive seems to have been set to a disabled status and I see the following as the Smart report. If anyone could please help and explain if this is actually failing. I haven't been able to directly find something that better guides me to understa
Unraid does, of course, give you resilience in drive failures through the use of a dedicated parity drive or multiple parity drives and it works well. I have recovered from multiple drive failures on a number of occasions without any issues at all. Rather than striping the data across all d...
you’ll just have to stop it, remove/insert, and then start it again. It’s quite a simple process, and you can even upgrade your parity drive in the future. The main thing to keep in mind is that your parity drive has to always be the largest drive in the system. All other stor...
When I needed more space, I bought a larger hdd and replaced the parity disk with it. I then moved the old parity drive into the array. I’ve been doing that until I got to 14TB parity drive. From here I’m just adding drives directly to the array. I’m now building a second ...
Now would be a good time to do any drive swapping you intend to do. In my case, I actually pulled out one of the 1.5TB mirror drives and installed a new 4TB drive to use as my new parity drive for unRAID (future proofing for a larger array in the future)....
When it comes to ease of use, users often cite Unraid as being the easier of the two to use. In the case of adding a drive, you power off the server, add the new drive, turn it back on, and it will show up under Unassigned Devices. Next, run a plugin called Preclear to prepar...
Just like in the previous case, the program can’t build the array automatically, and it displays a parity disk with an unallocated area and a disk with the file system, while one disk from this array is lost. In the end, you have a drive containing some data that can be r...
parity and are totally unusable for storage. This leaves me with two 5TB drives and single 4TB drive to store whatever I please on them. I stick to Western Digital because for me, their drives tend to last forever and the one time a drive did fail, Western Digital replaced for free. ...
each drive into any Linux machine and copying off the data. For a RAID array, I’d need to be able to rebuild it with enough parity or lose it all. With Unraid, you’d at least be able to recover data from every drive which hadn’t failed, and that is just handy and convenient....