Carpesimia Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment
Carpesimia Posted March 23, 2023 Author Share Posted March 23, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment
Carpesimia Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 Havent tried this as of yet. Ran into some issues with other things that I'll be posting a new thread about momentarily. Quote Link to comment
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