Babar Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Hi all, I am pretty excited about upgrading my parity disk to larger size. Its going into my HP Microserver gen8. The box allows 4 3.5" SATA disks, which are all currently occupied. I have gone through the documentation and I am still slightly confused. I am sharing my disk assignment below. Here is the target state. I will upgrade the parity disk from 16TB to 18TB. Once the array has copied parity data, I want to replace 4TB DATA disk with old 16TB PARITY disk. So the array sits like this. For OCD, I prefer to keep my PARITY disk in array bay 1 always. Yes I know. What will be the shortest steps to achieve this outcome, while maintaining data. Also, if possible, I want to keep the array available and functional while the Parity is rebuilt. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Babar said: I want to keep the array available and functional while the Parity is rebuilt. First upgrade parity, when that's done upgrade disk2. Quote Link to comment
Babar Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 15 hours ago, JorgeB said: First upgrade parity Is there a way to upgrade parity disk without keeping array offline ? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 The array is not offline while parity rebuilds. Quote Link to comment
Babar Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 Ok I have finally managed to preclear my new disk, so need to move to next step. Question: Is there a way to copy the parity from previous 16TB disk to new 18tb disk, without having to rebuild parity again ? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Just let it rebuild. If there's any issues with the new drive, you can always replace it with the old one via a New Config Quote Link to comment
Babar Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 Cheers, thanks. Quote Link to comment
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