So I recently found out that I have sh*t my leg… I was about to set up unraid but just before dipping my toes I was told that the parity drive needs to be the same or larger in size, really wish I had done more thorough reseach before recently buying that 10TB HDD hehe…
My planned setup was; 250 GB - SSD (Cache) 1 TB - HDD (Parity) 2 TB - HDD (Pool) 10 TB - HDD (Pool)
So what are my option now that I have messed that up, what would you recommend? To go without parity or is there another way?
Any help is appriciated, I am still quite new to selfhosting/linux :)
UPDATE; I can trade the 10TB for two 4TB disks + the extra. Should I?
Temporarily use the 10tb drive as unassigned drive or another cache (in the latest version you can have multiple caches, they’re not called cache anymore) until you buy another two 10tb drives. One to add as parity, the other to add to the pool, then copy back the stuff, add the original 10tb back
Thing is I dont ever see myself getting another 10TB drive, kinda bought this one as the “only disk ill ever need…” (i know they dont last forever but u get the gist). So I defo wasnt planning on buying even more of them. My photos only take up 500GB at the moment haha, so 10TB is already overkill for me, hence why im wanting to trade my 10TB drive in for two 4TB drives.