Replacing parity drive


coblck

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So my new 8tb drive arrives tomorrow and I will install it and pre clear it. So after that is it just as simple as stopping array then assigning new drive to parity slot then restart array and let parity rebuild. 

 

Would you recommend using dockers during parity build ie plex. 

 

Anyway thanks for any info or tips. 

 

 

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Yes - it is that simple.   The preclear is strictly not necessary as parity build rewrites every sector on the drive but no harm in doing it if you want to do an initial stress test of the drive.

 

Any other disk I/O at the same time as a parity build will adversely affect its speed (so it takes longer) but if you are happy with that you can use applications at the same time.

 

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