October 23, 20223 yr I have begun replacing 8TB disks with 12TB disks, and now have a little wiggle room. Several very old 3TB and 4TB disks, four to be exact, need to go -- they are throwing errors and I have just finished copying all data off of them and onto other disks. The four disk are blank. I've read the FAQs and how-to's about doing a New Config. But before I take the plunge and remove four disks at the same time, I figured I'd post here for one final sanity check. What is the preferred procedure for permanently removing these four disks from my array? Thank you.
October 24, 20223 yr Author Thanks. Unfortunately I can't get a parity check to complete (the reboot issue I am trying to figure out) so I'm worried about doing it because I don't think a parity sync will work right now.
October 24, 20223 yr Community Expert You probably want to fix those stability issues before doing anything more around the disks then. All the ways of removing disks and maintaining/restoring parity protection involve long operations. Edited October 24, 20223 yr by Kilrah
October 24, 20223 yr Author The PS I am using is a Seasonic gold, ten months old. I don't believe it to be a power issue. The random reboots I am experiencing during a parity check came as soon as I added two 12TB parity disks and a 12TB member disk. I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this particular issue. Removing the extra disks I mentioned above will allow me to remove an extra HBA that is running an external enclosure... I am slowly trying to eliminate variables. I was hoping to be able to get that all out of the system before I move on, as that stupid setup has caused me nothing but major issues since Day 1.
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