How to replace parity when license dont allow more drives?

[lusitopp]

Hi, 

 

Im running on the basic license and I have all 6 drives in use.

Now i want to do "The parity swap procedure", but if I boot up unraid with the new drive plugged in I will have 7 drives.

 

So what is the best way to do this?
Turn off machine, remove old parity, insert new parity and rebuild?

[JorgeB]

If parity swap is the adequate procedure for what you need you can disconnect the disabled disk.

[itimpi]

3 hours ago, lusitopp said:

Turn off machine, remove old parity, insert new parity and rebuild?

This implies you want to swap the parity for a larger drive for which Parity swap is not appropriate.    Parity swap is used for the special case of where you have a failed data drive and want to simultaneously upgrade parity to a larger drive and use the old parity drive as the replacement for the failed data drive.  What are you actually trying to achieve?

[lusitopp]

Today I have a 6TB parity and a really old 3TB drive (uptime for over 7 years).
Since 8TB was cheaper than 6TB (black friday) I bought the 8TB.

 

So now I want to replace 6TB with the 8TB for parity and then replace the 3TB with the old 6TB parity drive.

 

But since my license is only basic and I already have 6 devices I guess I cannot plugin my new 8TB and do the swap since I would have 7 devices for a short time.

 

So what is the best way?

 

[JorgeB]

3 minutes ago, lusitopp said:

So what is the best way?

You can do the parity swap, one of the first steps is to disable the disk you want to replace, since it's not yet disabled, after you do that you can remove that disk and connect the new parity.

[lusitopp]

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

You can do the parity swap, one of the first steps is to disable the disk you want to replace, since it's not yet disabled, after you do that you can remove that disk and connect the new parity.

 

Great, thank you 😃