My cache drive seems to be failing slowly and I am thinking about replacing it with a SSD, the cache drive tends to stay spun up due to running SabNZBD+, Sickbeard, and CouchPotato constantly.  Anyway I wanted to be sure of the procedure to replace the drive...

 

1. Move all content off (part 1 - run mover to move all movable content, part 2 - copy all "dot" directories like my Sickbeard and SabNZBD+ directories to a safe place)

2. Stop the array and unassign the drive

3. Shutdown

4. Replace the drive

5. Start up and assign the new cache drive (I may have to stop the array after boot)

6. Assign the new cache drive

7. Copy the "dot" directories back

 

(I will disable the loading of my apps off the cache drive in the go script before I do all this and re-enable at the end)

 

That sound right?

 

Thanks.

 

G

 

P.S. Running Unraid 4.7

I just did this about an hour ago, and your list looks right. I didn't even bother disabling anything in the Go script -- I just shut down SABnzbd and Transmission.

Excellent, thanks for the quick reply!

Man, what a roller coaster five minutes.

 

1) I realized after a disk swap from 1tb to 2tb, I now have an extra 1tb disk that would be perfect in the cache slot to replace the current 250gb disk.

2) Then I searched for a thread listing the steps to do this.

3) Found this thread, confirmed what I thought the steps might be.

4) Figured out I do not have an empty SATA slot...   :'(