October 11, 201114 yr All, I have a 2tb drive that I took out of my array a couple of months ago due to it getting a lot of errors. I since found out the slot in my backplane was what went bad and more than likely this drive is good. What I want to do now is replace an good standing 1tb drive in my array with this 2tb drive. Can I simply just shutdown my array remove the 1tb drive and replace it with this 2tb drive, and bring the array back on line? I know this would work for a BRAND NEW drive, but I'm using a drive that was at one point part of my array, I know unraid makes it "mark" on these drives and i'm concerned this might cause issues.
October 11, 201114 yr All, I have a 2tb drive that I took out of my array a couple of months ago due to it getting a lot of errors. I since found out the slot in my backplane was what went bad and more than likely this drive is good. What I want to do now is replace an good standing 1tb drive in my array with this 2tb drive. Can I simply just shutdown my array remove the 1tb drive and replace it with this 2tb drive, and bring the array back on line? I know this would work for a BRAND NEW drive, but I'm using a drive that was at one point part of my array, I know unraid makes it "mark" on these drives and i'm concerned this might cause issues. That is exactly how you can proceed. Joe L.
October 11, 201114 yr Author And unraid won't think that Im replacing that 1tb drive with a drive that's already in the array (it used to be disk 4 many months ago, and still has all the original data on it) or even worse mess up the current in place disk 4.
October 11, 201114 yr Yes, you can just swap them and rebuild. unRAID will know you replaced the disk and use the old one as the replacement even though it was used. I would first run a preclear on the disk to ensure it really is OK. Peter
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