JaviPas Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) I've got an Unraid machine with an ASRock J5040 motherboard with only 4 SATA ports. It's fine for my purposes (came from a previous system), and I have 1 x 2 TB SSD (cache) 3 x 10 TB HDD (Raidz1 main arraid) I've used the SSD not only for cache, but to have there all my personal photos and videos. After organizing all of them I've realized that there's almost no space left on the SSD, so I have bought a 4 TB SSD drive to replace it. The problem is, I don't have a 5th SATA connector that could allow me to connect it straight away, copy the data from one to the other and keep everything as it is. I wonder what would be the easiest and safest way to replace the SSD. I guess I should shutdown Unraid Take out the 2TB SSD Drive Connect the 4TB SSD Drive and initialize it to replace the old 2TB one Connect the 2TB SSD Drive to the USB port of the Unraid system through an SSD to USB adapter and make use of Unassigned devices to mount it Copy everything from the old drive to the new one. I don't know if this makes sense, there's probably a better option (or one that works if the one proposed is just not right). Edit: I've seen this post titled 'Replacing a pool disk' and the process I mention seems to be pretty similar to what this explains. Let me know if that would work (the new drive would be empty, so the idea is to format it and then copy all the content from the older drive). Edited January 9 by JaviPas Included a link with information that was in the forums. Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted January 10 Solution Share Posted January 10 13 hours ago, JaviPas said: shutdown Unraid Take out the 2TB SSD Drive Connect the 4TB SSD Drive and initialize it to replace the old 2TB one Connect the 2TB SSD Drive to the USB port of the Unraid system through an SSD to USB adapter and make use of Unassigned devices to mount it Copy everything from the old drive to the new one. That should work as long the USB bridge is transparent. 1 Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Another option would be to copy the data to your other pool. 1 Quote Link to comment
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