tldr; moving from a Dell r420 to a Dell m640 in a Dell VRTX, where should change any of my settings configurations

I currently am running my Unraid on a Dell r420 off a cheap USB stick. The r420 has an LSI 9206-16e with 2 Dell MD1000s attached. I’m not using any of the r420 drive bays as I couldn’t get Unraid to detect them after trying to flash the controller. The storage is:

  • 1x 6TB (Parity)
  • 11x 4TB
  • 3x 3TB
  • 14x 2TB
  • 1x 2TB (cache)

I also have several other 2TB and smaller drives left some 10K and 15K rpm drives and a 12TB SAS drive I stumbled upon for cheap.

The Dell VRTX is the sff format version and I have 8 drives for that, but heard I will struggle with getting those to show up in Unraid. The m640 has 2x 300TB SSDs, that I might be able to use with Unraid easily.

This weekend I plan on moving the LSI Card to the VRTX, figuring out how to pass it through to the m640, and getting everything up and running. It’s going to take me minutes, so I’ve been led to believe as Unraid, should just work!

But I’m wondering how I can better utilize my storage. I’m wasting the 12TB Currently as it’s not being used. My gut reaction is take out one of the 2tb and replace with the 12TB and run it in it’s own pool since I can’t parity it and I feel like using it for Parity would be a waste as well.

Am I missing anything? Should I be doing something completely different? Is using a dual Xeon Gold 6134 128GB RAM Machine a complete waste for Unraid? Everything was well loved before it got to me, but I’m giving it a good retirement home running an *arr network of tools, AMP Game Server for a bunch of Teens, and learning about things like NGINX and PiHole for myself (and failing… stupid 502 gateway NGINX error!)

EDIT: Here’s the plugins I’m currently using that I’ve seen mentioned on the other place that we shall not go back to.

  • Community Applications
  • Disk Location
  • Dynamix File Manager
  • Dynamix System Buttons
  • Fix Common Problems
  • Parity Check Tuning
  • Unassigned Devices and Unassigned Device Plus
  • and now unBALANCE from https://lemmy.world/u/zehty recommendation
  • @KaereyOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    undefined> consolidating your data using unBALANCE

    OMG that’s perfect, just installed it. I need to remove one of the 2TB anyway to get the 12TB in there. This is like my dream come true I was trying to do that through the file manager thingy dohicky (technical term?)

    • ZehTyEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Perfect! I had to use it when I was updating my cache drive and reorganizing download data across a few drives to add a new one. It took hours and hours, but once it was done, all the data ended up in the right places, and when I relaunched my dockers, everything worked without a hitch.

      Just remember to turn off any services like VMs, dockers, or movers before using it. It’s much simpler that way since live data won’t be passing through while you’re moving it.