Adding new drives to an existing array, Newb problems.

[BIG4570]

Hey guys,  I've been setting up my UnRaid server over the last few days.  The first thing I did was get my storage disks setup so I wouldn't have much downtime for my plex server which was previously a windows server.  Here's what I did.

 

1) Added 3 - 3TB Drives for storage and got my unraid server all setup.

2) Put my main media drive in my gaming system to move my library over to to the unraid server.

All worked great,  plex is up and running as well as a few other docker apps.

 

3)Shutdown the server

 

4) Added the 8TB drive that was in my gaming rig to be used as a parity drive in the unraid server 

5) Added another 3TB drive to be used as storage.

 

6) Bootup the Server

7) Server Started to do parity automatically and it recognized that a new storage disk.

 

Problem:  I can assign the new disk a number but once the disk is assigned a number I can't start the array? 

 

My server is currently in the middle of running a parity operation,  is this why I cannot assign the drive and start the array or did I make a mistake somewhere?

 

 

[trurl]

I think it won't let you do that even though it should be OK since parity isn't built yet. 

 

Just wait for parity build to finish then add the new data disk. 

[trurl]

It will have to clear the new disk, so it will be faster to cancel the parity build and New Config with the new disk.

 

Or just let it go ahead with parity build. 

[BIG4570]

Ok thanks!