[SOLVED] Replace two IDE drives with one SATA drive?

[Just Me]

Hey!

 

Sorry for creating an new thread but I want to be sure that I don't make any mistakes.

 

I'm running unRAID 4.7 with 8 drives. 6 SATA disks and 2 IDE disks. I wand to replace the two IDE disks with just one new 2TB SATA drive.

 

parity and disk 1 to 5 are my SATA drives, disk 6 and 7 are my IDE drives. The new drive should be disk 6 after the replacement.

 

What is the best way to replace the drives?

 

My idea:

 

1. preclear the new drive

2. make a parity check

3. stop the array

4. unassign disk6 and select the new SATA drive as disk6

5. start the array, that should rebuild the data on disk 6 right?

6. copy all data from disk7 to disk6 (How? Just use the Windows Explorer?)

7. Stop the array

8. unassign disk7

9. use the "initconfig" command so unRAID will forget disk7

10. start the array

11. make a parity check

 

Is this the way I should proceed? Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

[dgaschk]

Looks good:

 

1. preclear the new drive

2. make a parity check

3. stop the array

4. unassign disk6 and select the new SATA drive as disk6

5. start the array, that should rebuild the data on disk 6 right?

6. copy all data from disk7 to disk6 (How? Just use the Windows Explorer?)

It will be faster to use mc. Enter "mc" on the command line.

7. Stop the array

8. unassign disk7

9. use the "initconfig" command so unRAID will forget disk7

10. start the array

parity will rebuild

11. make a parity check

 

Is this the way I should proceed? Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

[Just Me]

Thank you It worked perfectly.