Odom

In my build I had purchased an LSI 9201-16i card. I can't explain the technical details, I also asked around in this forum and wanted a card that could hook up to 16 internal drives. At the time this was recommended, so I got it 😀 My unRaid server is running 10x WD 14TB drives. Their designation is WDC_WD140EDFZ-11A0VA0. These a re all shucked drives from the WD My Book 14TB external storage. I purchased these drives whenever they were on sale on Amazon. They all work just fine in my server, I have no issues.

I see what I did wrong.... On the New Config screen, I did select "Retain current assignments", but I forgot to check the box "Yes, I want to do this"..... I now managed to go through the steps you outlined and Parity 2 is rebuilding: Thank you very, very much for your help!! 😀 Happy New Year to all!! Odom

I tried following your procedure. In Step 2 I re-assigned all the drives so that the numbers would be sequential, and unassigned Parity 2: However in Step 3 it doesn't allow me to start the array. I do not see the option "Parity is valid". Did I do something wrong?

The parity rebuild finished just a couple of hours ago. Tomorrow I'll try @itimpi's suggestion.

I finally got around to doing the procedure and my array is now rebuilding the parity information. I simply unassigned the drives I wanted to remove later, so my array now looksl ike this: As you can see, some disk numbers are missing, as they are listed further down in the Unassigned Devices. Is this an issue? Once the parity is done, I plan to shut down the server and physically remove the 4 drives in the Unassigned Devices. At that point, and before I start the array back up, can I re-assign the drives to sequencial numbers? For example, switch Disk 5 to Disk 4, then Disk 6 to Disk 5, so that they are sequential numbers again. Or will the array do this automatically once I remove the older drives? Thank you all again for all your help so far, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!! Odom

Yes, I used unBalance to skatter all the data from those two drives and confirmed via Krusader that nothing is on them. I also removed them from the Share Settings, so that nothing would be re-added to them. Thanks very much to the both of you, I'll go and try that then. Regards, Odom

Hello, I would like to remove two disks in my array, in order to reduce the amount of disks used. I replaced some 6TB disks with 14TB ones, and now that I have more space I would like to remove two other 6TB disks. The goal is to reduce the number of disks in the case (and I don't need those disks anymore). I have 12 disks in my array, +2 parity drives On Reddit somebody pointed to this procedure on a related post: https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array#Procedure ...copy-paste for ease... However, the person asking at the time had 1 parity drive, whereas I have 2 parity drives. Would the same procedure still apply?

A couple of weeks ago I was watching a video of Linus Tech Tips and he used this case: Define 7 XL Define 7 XL Dark Tempered Glass Define 7 XL Light Tempered Glass That case not only looks amazing, but can fit up to 18 drives. It seems that every fan mount can also be used for mounting a drive. In Germany that case goes for about 200€. Looks much better and fits more drives than my crappy Rosewill R4000.

OK thanks. I guess when I get it I'll boot it up and will see what firmware it comes with. If it is below then I'll update it. I'm on day 5 of my unRaid trial and so far I'm only pre-clearing my old disks and finding out which ones need to be binned due to errors. I'm really excited to be playing with unRaid and the possibilities it offers. Can't believe i didn't hear about it before getting my Qnap...

Hi, I purchased myself this card: LSI00244 9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS Host Bus Adapter Card and I guess I have to flash it to IT Mode, right? (I just got into this and don't know much yet about these cards, but still learning ) I found a link earlier in this topic to this site: https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search/?pg=Legacy+Products&pf=&pn=SAS+9201-16i+Host+Bus+Adapter&pa=Firmware&po=&dk= Could someone just confirm that this is the correct package that I need (bottom of the list): 9201-16i_Package_P20_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows Is this correct?