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Clearing Confusion on AF Drives
Rajahal:
Followup question:
Say someone is currently running 4.6 or older and using unjumpered WD EARS drives (against the better judgment of these forums). Say this person then upgrades to 4.6.1 or newer. Any potential issues?
limetech:
--- Quote from: Rajahal on January 05, 2011, 02:43:17 PM ---Followup question:
Say someone is currently running 4.6 or older and using unjumpered WD EARS drives (against the better judgment of these forums). Say this person then upgrades to 4.6.1 or newer. Any potential issues?
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It will run at less than max efficiency like it would under those conditions in 4.6. You could reformat however just by clicking a button.
Blade1001:
This is great, timing is perfect for me! :)
Just one additional scenario though - if you are migrating a drive from an existing filesystem, do you just treat it as if it was a new drive in the new versions of unRAID - I.e. Add it to the system unjumpered and the select format in the GUI, or does something else have to be done in addition to get it ready for unRAID?
limetech:
--- Quote from: Blade1001 on January 05, 2011, 11:29:45 PM ---This is great, timing is perfect for me! :)
Just one additional scenario though - if you are migrating a drive from an existing filesystem, do you just treat it as if it was a new drive in the new versions of unRAID - I.e. Add it to the system unjumpered and the select format in the GUI, or does something else have to be done in addition to get it ready for unRAID?
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If you mean with some other file system type, such as NTFS? Yes in this case unRaid 4.6.1/5.0-beta3 will treat as an unformatted drive and create partition 1 starting in sector 64 and then make a ReiserFS file system in partition 1.
redia:
what about people who used the alignment tool ?
I have not yet started to fill my 2g drives.. so I will definitely reformat them
but I believe I read somewhere (hopefully not in my dreams) that 'aligned' disk would mean trouble....
R
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