porter.chris

Awesome responses! I'll post up my numbers once I shuck the other case and get it in the system. I'd like to get the pre-clear started on the 4th drive sooner than later. If I shutdown the box during a pre-clear cycle will it pick up where it left off or start over? What if its on pass 2 of 3, will it keep going or do I need to start that pass over again?

The more I thought about this last night the more I was comfortable with splitting up my array to not be consistent. If I lose a drive, especially a parity, I hope its on a different schedule than my other drives. I am also curious how sensitive is the parity "largest drive" requirement? I haven't shucked the Seagate yet so I don't know if it is 100% of the same size as the other 8TB drives. Is the requirement down to the byte or does unRAID give some leaway as long as they are very close? If I lose a few MB of storage so that the array works I'm fine with that. I'd rather answer my own question than asking here but I'm still in the first of three passes on pre-clear, almost 30h in, and I still need to do the Seagate before I'll be able to find out from the unRAID setup.

They were all Thailand sourced and the first one confirmed Red with 256MB cache. As a great bonus, you can open the cases with no visible marks or broken seals so warranty should be easy should I need it. Thanks bjp999

Is there any concern with mixing drive brands and types between primary storage and parity? I have a Seagate 8TB external that I plan to shuck and use for parity and will be picking up 3-4x of the WD 8TB EasyStore (fingers crossed for red drives) that I plan to shuck and use for primary storage. I'm new to unRAID and wanted to make sure there wasn't concern mixing brands and types of drives. My reading lends me to believe I'll be fine but I hoped for some opinions before I go through setup and have to tear down if its bad juju. Thanks!