October 17, 20223 yr Hi friends! I have been using unraid for about 18 months now. I have 2 8 TB drives with 1 being parity along with 2 1tb cache SSD's. It's been humming right along. I am up to about 5 TB on the data drive. With the prices of big drives coming down I am going to be swapping my 8TB parity and data drive soon. What would be the suggested process in doing this? I was thinking I should swap the parity drive first, let it rebuild with a new 12 TB drive. Once all is good, swap the data drive with the new 12 TB drive. Would that be the best way to accomplish this? At the rate I add data I figure this would be good for at least 3-4 years for me.
October 17, 20223 yr 14 minutes ago, bclinton said: I was thinking I should swap the parity drive first, let it rebuild with a new 12 TB drive. Once all is good, swap the data drive with the new 12 TB drive. That's the best way.
October 18, 20223 yr If you have space for it you could start by upgrading the parity drive and then adding the old parity drive as a data drive to give 8TB additional usable space. Would avoid the need to have 2x12TB from the outset.
October 18, 20223 yr Author 1 hour ago, itimpi said: If you have space for it you could start by upgrading the parity drive and then adding the old parity drive as a data drive to give 8TB additional usable space. Would avoid the need to have 2x12TB from the outset. I considered that but I wanted to see if I could reduce the power used by the server. I started with 16 TB data and 1 8TB parity but realized that I would be at least a couple of years from needing more that 8 TB of data. After I removed the 8TB drive my power usage went down almost 20 watts at idle.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.