fletch8527

Thanks for the advice. I did give Unbalanced a shot but backed out when it mentioned all the file permissions issues. Likely due to the docker containers and maybe the hardlinks they create. Ill check out their support thread and see what I can figure out.

Just to clear up, I only plan to move one of the two 14tb drives. There is already a 14tb as a parity, the other two of them are in the array. The 4x 12tb drives that I just added still have over 11TB of free space each. The less full 14tb drive currently in use has 8.82tb used so the contents of that drive could wholly fit in one of the 12tb drives. I have also attached my diagnostics. fletchnas-diagnostics-20240323-0928.zip

Looking for some guidance. I currently have an array of 9 drives (3x 14tb, 4x 12tb, 1x 10tb and 1x 6tb). Currently one of the 14tb drives is my only parity drive, and the 4x 12tb drives were just added to the array this week. I want to have another parity drive. I was hoping to take one of the 14tb drives out of the array and make it a another parity drive (that that I have 2x 14tb drives as parity drives). Currently the 2x 14tb drives in the array are showing as 5.18tb and 3.5tb of free space. What would be the best way to take one of the 14tb drives out of service and move it to a parity drive? Does the data need to be moved off of it first? I did try the Unbalanced plugin but when I attempted to move the files from one of the drives it showed a lot of file permission issues and I didnt want to break anything thats running now.