January 18, 20242 yr I'm in the process of swapping out a lot of 7-8 year old 2TB drives with newer larger 14TB drives. I've currently got a 3U SM 12 shelf chassis + a Dell MD1200 DAS array. For energy purposes + future snapshot dedication I'd like to disconnect the remaining 2TB drives on the MD1200. What's the best/safest way to move the data off of the remaining 4 2TB drives onto the new 14TB drives & shrink my array while keeping the array running? I have a couple containers that must stay running with access to the array. Edit: I should note that it's ok to take the array down for an hour or so to do the actual "delete drives from config" to shrink it. I just can't have these containers offline for more than a day. Edited January 18, 20242 yr by STGMavrick
January 18, 20242 yr When I removed my old 2TB hard drives I used the unBalance plugin to move the data off the old drives. Here is the section in Unraid docs to shrink the array. Edited January 18, 20242 yr by Gragorg typo
January 18, 20242 yr Author I have used this previously to move some data off of disks. Unbalance needs exclusive read/write access so anything accessing the array needs to be shut down.
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