The flash drive simply unpacks an archive of the OS into RAM when it boots and the Unraid OS is actually running in RAM. Once you have Unraid up and running either via a free trial or a purchased license key, it’s important to know that Unraid does not run from the flash drive. Cheaper ones tend to fail more quickly than a quality USB manufacturer. SanDisk Cruzer Fit's are very popular choices for many Unraid users for their low profile design and reliability.You can see here mine is sdo… Open up a telnet/SSH session and run, changing sd? to suit and/path/to/ to wherever you want your Unraid VM drive to. Insert the key into your Unraid server, if you have the Unassigned devices plugin installed then look to see which drive is your UNRAID-VM key. STEP 2 – Create the Unraid Bootable Virtual Disk.Click on Shares and set all shares present on your Cache disk. All plugins, Dockers, and VM's that use the Cache disk in any way must be stopped.
If it's not an SSD, you may want to Preclear it.
Items to note: This article will walk through the steps of using the Microsoft Diskpart Erase utility to Clean the disk of a previous partition and format, including any data on the drive.
