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?
With that, the best you can do is glue the 1 and 2 TB drives together as a 3TB drive, and match it with an equal size partition on the 10 TB HDD. Those will have full redundancy, but not the remaining 7TB.
But you can at least have 3TB redundant, and 7TB of more risky storage. It can be used for things you can recover a different way, like game libraries, movie libraries, maybe backups of the 3TB since RAID doesn’t protect against accidental deletions and modifications.
You can’t do that on unRAID.
You can do that on Linux but IMHO if you’re not a Linux guru you shouldn’t even think to do that if you care about the data