July 11, 201115 yr I suppose this should be fairly straightforward, but I have made some non-trivial mistakes before so.... I am showing a disabled drive. It's the smallest one (250 gb) in the array and it's also an IDE drive. So, i'd like to remove it and install a 1.5TB sata drive. Does this have to be done in two steps (1: power down, remove disabled drive, restart, start the array, build parity, then 2: power down, insert the new drive, etc.) because of the change in drive position? Or can i do it in one shot? thanks in advance... as ever.
July 11, 201115 yr I suppose this should be fairly straightforward, but I have made some non-trivial mistakes before so.... I am showing a disabled drive. It's the smallest one (250 gb) in the array and it's also an IDE drive. So, i'd like to remove it and install a 1.5TB sata drive. Does this have to be done in two steps (1: power down, remove disabled drive, restart, start the array, build parity, then 2: power down, insert the new drive, etc.) because of the change in drive position? Or can i do it in one shot? thanks in advance... as ever. you can do it in one operation, assuming your existing parity drive is 1.5TB or bigger. Stop the array power down swap in the drive.. (obviously, it will be on a different disk controller) power up. The array will probably not start, but if it does stop it. Use the disk assignment page to assign the replacement disk to the failed disk's slot. Go back to the main management page. It should say something about re-constructing the replacement drive. Start the array. (might have to check the 'I'm sure button) That's it. It will use parity in combination with all the other disks to re-construct the contents of the failed disk. This will take about as long as the initial parity calculation.
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