Advice on how to proceed, replace parity, upgrade, move cache to esata

[manolodf]

Hi guys, I have Unraid 4.5.6 in a 4 bay Chenbro case that I really like. I am about to buy 2 of the 3TB drives that are on amazon : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QMA882/ref=as_li_ss_tl/?ie=UTF8&tag=pricevs-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B004QMA882

 

What I need to do is Replace my existing 2TB parity with one of these drives, Since I am getting dirty I may as well upgrade to the latest stable release you guys recommend, and finally I want to move my Cache drive which is occupying one of my bays to Esata port from an enclosure.  I currently run Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, Couchpotato on my cache drive, that is really the only reason I have the cache drive, the write speeds help a little bit but at this time probably not that much, hence I want to kick it to esata so I can stack my bays with my big drives.

 

One of my drives is one of those EARS Drives that I had to jumper that sucked (it was the reason transfers were getting errored out myseriously), so I may consider taking one of those out of the sequence but I want to make that decision once its upgraded and new parity is in and maybe try to integrate it into the system now without the required jumper with the upgraded unraid version.

 

What series of events would you recommend to accomplish this? Any tips or suggestions on any of those points?

 

Thanks a bunch

[BRiT]

The first step you will need to do is upgrade to the latest 5.0 BETA series. Only they support drives larger than 2.2TB. Once you've upgraded to that, ensure everything is working as expected before doing anything further.

[manolodf]

I just updated to 4.7 which was very easy, is there one of the 5.0 Beta series that is recommended over another?  Am I going to need to manually do alot of fixing when updating to the 5.0 Betas?