June 5, 201115 yr Here is my situation. Parity - 640 Data Drive - 5x 640 1x500 So one of my 640 data drive failed. Now I want to increase the parity drive to 1TB and move the current 640GB to the failed data slot. Is this possible? if so what's the procedure ?, or is it likely that I have to buy another 640 GB to replace the current failed one and then do the upgrade
June 5, 201115 yr Easy, the procedure is to put the existing parity drive in the position of the failed drive Android the new 1TB drive in the parity slot. When you power up after swapping/installing the drives as described, unRAID will recognize the swap-disabled config and first copy from the old parity drive to the new, and then reconstruct the data drive on what was the old parity drive. this procedure is described in the unRAID manual, look for it there.
June 5, 201115 yr ... failed drive Android the new 1TB drive ... swap-disabled config Android first ... new, Android .... Androids, everybody loves Androids! Looks like you're the victim of some auto-completion mayhem :-) Regards, Stephen
June 5, 201115 yr ... failed drive Android the new 1TB drive ... swap-disabled config Android first ... new, Android .... Androids, everybody loves Androids! Looks like you're the victim of some auto-completion mayhem :-) Regards, Stephen I think you are right. I did send that from an android tablet.
June 5, 201115 yr Quoting from the official unRAID manual: You must replace a failed disk with a disk which is as big or bigger than the original and not bigger than the parity disk. If the replacement disk is larger than your parity disk, then the system permits a special configuration change called swap-disable. For swap-disable, you use your existing parity disk to replace the failed disk, and you install your new big disk as the parity disk: Stop the array. Power down the unit. Replace the parity hard disk with a new bigger one. Replace the failed hard disk with you old parity disk. Power up the unit. Start the array. When you start the array, the system will first copy the parity information to the new parity disk, and then reconstruct the contents of the failed disk.
June 5, 201115 yr ... failed drive Android the new 1TB drive ... swap-disabled config Android first ... new, Android .... Androids, everybody loves Androids! Looks like you're the victim of some auto-completion mayhem :-) Regards, Stephen http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ Enjoy!
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