Gobble45 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Hey guys, so just last week i grabbed myself a few new drives for my array. The existing array was made up of mostly 8TB Drives, with a few 3 & 4TB drives. I grabbed two 10TB drives with the intention of one being a second Parity drive, and the other being added to the main array. Adding the second parity drive was fine. Time consuming, but fine. However adding the second 10TB drive to the main array keeps giving me the error "Disk in parity slot is not biggest." when i try starting the array. I've tried preclearing the disk. I've tried investigating the actual size of disks using terminal commands etc., but i still cant determine why this is happening. I've attached diagnostics. Any help is appreciated tower-diagnostics-20220221-1211.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 No data disk can be larger than any parity disk. You will have to replace 8TB parity with the 10TB then you can reuse 8TB parity as a data disk. Quote Link to comment
Gobble45 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 hi, sorry my post may not be clear. I've added one of my 10TB to the parity drives.. or am i misunderstanding, and i need both my parity drives to be the same size? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 minute ago, Gobble45 said: i need both my parity drives to be the same size? no, but 11 minutes ago, trurl said: No data disk can be larger than any parity disk Quote Link to comment
Gobble45 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 okay, so for clarfication, hypotherically, i could have a 10TB and 12TB parity disks. But so long as the main drives are not bigger than 10TB it will be fine. in my case, i need to make BOTH my parity the 10TB drives? Quote Link to comment
Solution trurl Posted February 21, 2022 Solution Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Gobble45 said: i could have a 10TB and 12TB parity disks. But so long as the main drives are not bigger than 10TB it will be fine. Correct 14 minutes ago, trurl said: replace 8TB parity with the 10TB then you can reuse 8TB parity as a data disk. Quote Link to comment
Gobble45 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 Perfect. thankyou Quote Link to comment
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