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<blockquote data-quote="slimmj0k3r" data-source="post: 651151" data-attributes="member: 86349">Don't know the answer to all your questions but the ones i do know/have an idea i did answer2- I do believe the drive has to be wiped clean, what i did was move everything on a happy medium and setup my unraid then transfer everything back over.3- in unraid i know it has options for you to select what drive does what, however i am not sure of this offhand. I'm sticking with 2TB drives all the way through4- i do believe you can switch to another system. all your info is on the thumb drive which is your config info, ect, ect. I'm planning on doing this myself once i decide to get a new case.5- never update, don't know.6- not sure of this either, i believe i have a 2gb stick that literally stays plugged in all the time...out of sight, out of mind. Keep yourself a backup though7- I'm using raid controllers simply because my mobo doesn't have any Sata ports.8- anything that is capable of holding at least 5-6 HDDs should do just fine. I'm using an OLD PC case from like 2002 and i currently have 3 HDDs setup (2TBx3) with about 100 movie backups right now using about 1.5TBs....most are mkv containers and some are iso's that i tried out for a while but need to be stripped down. Eventually when i need the space i'm gonna get another 2-3 HDDs before i switch cases9- No idea about this. I haven't seen any dramatic increase in energy bills since i've had my unraid server running, i've been meaning to check out energy consumption but never got around to doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="slimmj0k3r, post: 651151, member: 86349"] Don't know the answer to all your questions but the ones i do know/have an idea i did answer 2- I do believe the drive has to be wiped clean, what i did was move everything on a happy medium and setup my unraid then transfer everything back over. 3- in unraid i know it has options for you to select what drive does what, however i am not sure of this offhand. I'm sticking with 2TB drives all the way through 4- i do believe you can switch to another system. all your info is on the thumb drive which is your config info, ect, ect. I'm planning on doing this myself once i decide to get a new case. 5- never update, don't know. 6- not sure of this either, i believe i have a 2gb stick that literally stays plugged in all the time...out of sight, out of mind. Keep yourself a backup though 7- I'm using raid controllers simply because my mobo doesn't have any Sata ports. 8- anything that is capable of holding at least 5-6 HDDs should do just fine. I'm using an OLD PC case from like 2002 and i currently have 3 HDDs setup (2TBx3) with about 100 movie backups right now using about 1.5TBs....most are mkv containers and some are iso's that i tried out for a while but need to be stripped down. Eventually when i need the space i'm gonna get another 2-3 HDDs before i switch cases 9- No idea about this. I haven't seen any dramatic increase in energy bills since i've had my unraid server running, i've been meaning to check out energy consumption but never got around to doing so. [/QUOTE]

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