June 2, 20224 yr Hi, due to a drive defect inside an array, I ordered 2 new 14TB drives. Before the drives arrived, I already removed the defect harddisk from the array. The defect HDD is 3TB in size. One of the new 14TB drives I want to use to replace the old data drive, and the other one I want to use to replace the working parity drive (4TB) (to be able to consume the full 14TB of the new drive). What would be the correct procedure to replace the defect data disk from the degraded array and then to replace the parity drive? Would the following be the correct procedure? Stop the array Add the new data disk to the slot where the defect one was Then applying the changes by starting the array Wait for the sync to finish Stop the array Assign Parity disk from the small one to the new, larger one Submit changes by starting the array Rebuild of parity drive should be happening now, and I can use the server already Is the procedure correct? Will I be able after that change to automatically use the full space of the 14TB data drive? Thanks, MiNe
June 2, 20224 yr Most likely will need to do a parity swap. Your data drive cannot be larger than the parity drive. Edited June 2, 20224 yr by jmztaylor
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