January 17, 20233 yr So, as the title states.. I've been running off of the parity drive and adding new shows, content, etc. to what I'm assuming is the Parity drive this whole time. So I am finally going to order a new drive and am wondering if all I need to do is switch the current Parity Drive to 'Disk 1' and install the new drive as a 'Parity drive' instead. I noticed unraid won't let me just move this Parity drive over to be 'Disk 1' and have no parity drive selected. Not sure why that is.. but yeah. Anything I should be aware of when I go to do this swap? I don't want to lose any of the 'udpated data' I've got on the 'Parity' drive now.
January 17, 20233 yr Community Expert I am guessing that you got to this point because you had a disk1 that got disabled and you never rebuilt it. So you have been using the emulated disk1 all this time. Is that correct? Looks like emulated disk1 has about 4TB of contents. You should just install a new disk1 and rebuild. Attach diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.
January 17, 20233 yr Author 9 minutes ago, trurl said: I am guessing that you got to this point because you had a disk1 that got disabled and you never rebuilt it. So you have been using the emulated disk1 all this time. Is that correct? Looks like emulated disk1 has about 4TB of contents. You should just install a new disk1 and rebuild. Attach diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. Yes, you would be absolutely correct. I THINK the drive is still in there because I have been too lazy to take it out. So just stop array, power down, install new disk where the old one was connected, and then it'll rebuild by itself? unraid-diagnostics-20230117-1600.zip Edited January 17, 20233 yr by Wulfie
January 17, 20233 yr Community Expert I don't see a connected disk other than those in your screenshot. Are you planning to replace disk1 with another 8TB?
January 17, 20233 yr Author 2 minutes ago, trurl said: I don't see a connected disk other than those in your screenshot. Are you planning to replace disk1 with another 8TB? Perhaps I removed the SATA power cable since it was getting a bit loud 😬 but Yes I just ordered a new 8TB Ironwolf that should be here Thursday. Edited January 17, 20233 yr by Wulfie
January 17, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution 20 minutes ago, Wulfie said: stop array, power down, install new disk where the old one was connected, and then it'll rebuild by itself? It's not about "where the old one was connected". It is only about where the disk is assigned. Assign the disk to the same slot as the missing disk (disk1).
January 17, 20233 yr Author Just now, trurl said: It's not about "where the old one was connected". It is only about where the disk is assigned. Assign the disk to the same slot as the missing disk (disk1). Ok, gotcha. So don't go about assigning the current parity drive to disk1 and the new drive to parity. Just put a new disk in there and assign it disk1. Roger that. Thank you for your help!
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