bclinton Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
bclinton Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
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