I find the guides pretty confusing. I want to replace my parity drive with a larger one on the same SATA port. Then add the old parity drive as a data drive on a different SATA port. This is because I have bought a MZHOU PCIe SATA Card 6 Port to add extra drives, and I feel like it's safer to have the parity drive on a mainboard SATA port (or is that nonsense..?).
I wanted to do it like this:
1. Stop array and power down system
2. Remove old parity drive
3. Install new drive on the same SATA port as the old parity drive
4. Boot system
5. Assign new drive as parity
6. Start array and let it rebuild parity
7. Stop the array
8. Power down system
9. Add old parity drive to a MZHOU SATA port
10. Boot system and assign old parity drive as a data drive
11. Start array
12. DONE!
That should work right? This seems like the simplest way to me, or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: also, if anyone knows, that MZHOU card has no drive size limit, does it? I want to use 14TB+ drives with it.
Edit2: this edit comes very late, but just in case other people come across this post: that MZHOU card did not work in my system. I am not sure if it was a faulty card or if it simply doesn't work with Unraid. I sent it back for a refund.