June 29, 20224 yr I have been a drobo user for awhile now but I am tired of my drobo, my drobo has been bad, bad drobo bad. With that being said, I am trying to learn and be all I can be with UnRaid. I bought the license, yeah for me. The question / problem / concern. I used any spare drive I could just to get UnRaid up and working. Was all well and good but not really the space that I need to keep things good, was just enough to copy what I wanted over from the Drobo. I used a 16TB NAS drive for my parity drive and currently all my other drives are 8tb or less. Now that my data is off my Drobo, I am wanting to move all my 16 tb drives over. Should be easy enough. I turned off my aray, I did a graceful shutdown, I pulled out the smallest drive in my array and replaced it with my 16tb. I booted up and it unraid said, hey your missing a drive. Figured no big deal. I put in the 16tb that I replaced it with and it will not allow me to turn up my array. What am I missing here? I see under tools I can do a new config, should I do that? Will I lose everything that I have moved over? Just curious where to go from here. Thanks in advance.
June 29, 20224 yr Author Here are the dia gnostics - thank you again. unr-diagnostics-20220628-1814.zip
June 29, 20224 yr Community Expert Looks like you are trying to change disk6 when you already have a missing disk5 that needs to be replaced/rebuilt first.
June 29, 20224 yr Author Disk 5 was never used - had the drive there but it never formatted or mounted so I didn't think it was a part of the mix. If I did the new config would that resolve the issue but keep the data i have on there? Edited June 29, 20224 yr by bluepoet
June 29, 20224 yr Community Expert Solution 1 minute ago, bluepoet said: I didn't think it was a part of the mix It was. 2 minutes ago, bluepoet said: new config That will let you assign any disks as you want and optionally (by default) rebuild parity. You must let it rebuild parity. Be sure you don't assign any data disk to any parity slot.
June 29, 20224 yr Author Okay - so do new config - let it rebuild and then I can start to redo my drives again. Guessing if I wanted a two drive failure option, then I should do two parity drives eventually. Thank you.
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