Moving Drives

[Carpesimia]

Hi guys,

 

I admit to being  total noob when I first set up my unraid server.  Its in an older proliant with 8 hot swap drive trays.   I just went through the process of upgrading all of my drive to larger ones, and when doing so I notices that the drives are WAY out of order.  What I mean by this, is this:

 

Bay 1: Array Disk 2

Bay 2: Array Disk 1

Bay 3: Parity Disk 1

Bay 4: Array Disk 5

Bay 5: Array Disk 3

Bay 6: Array Disk 3

Bay 7: Parity Disk 2

Bay 8: Cache Disk (SSD)

 

Since the drives are mapped logically inside unraid, would i be able to stop the array and then sort these into a better order?  Like:

 

Bay 1 - 5:  Array Disks 1-5 in order

Bay 6 - 7: Parity 1 and 2

Bay 8: Cache Disk (SSD)

 

I dont think Id need to change anything in unraid, but I am worried that the drive designations (sdb, sdc, etc) could change if I moved them.

 

Anyone know more about this than me?   Anyone done something like this before?  All input would be appreciated.

 

Rich

[itimpi]

26 minutes ago, Carpesimia said:

I dont think Id need to change anything in unraid, but I am worried that the drive designations (sdb, sdc, etc) could change if I moved them.

It should work.   Unraid never relies on the sdX designations as they can change between boots - it just relies on the drive serial numbers.

[Carpesimia]

I just added my second parity drive and it's syncing.  When its done, ill stop the array and move a few things around and see if it'll start back up.

 

[Carpesimia]

Havent tried this as of yet.  Ran into some issues with other things that I'll be posting a new thread about momentarily.