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Questions around disk space and parity in unraid (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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.