March 14, 20242 yr I have a cache pool of 2x500gb drives. I want to upgrade those drives. Can I replace one at a time with a larger disk, and not need to disable/move things off my cache drive/pool?
March 14, 20242 yr Community Expert Assuming a redundant btrfs or zfs pool you can, one at a time: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?do=findComment&comment=480419
March 14, 20242 yr Theoretically yes, but real life experience dictates that it will only go smoothly if you take the time to make a full backup beforehand. If you make a backup, you won't need it, if you don't make a backup, something will go wrong and you will lose everything.
March 14, 20242 yr If you aren't sure how to check that the pool is healthy and redundant, attach your diagnostics to your next post in this thread and ask for someone to evaluate them for you.
March 14, 20242 yr Author Attached. I'm certain that it's healthy. I guess my question was... replace one, rebuild, replace the other, rebuild. Will it consume all available space? I will of course make a backup before doing anything. tower-diagnostics-20240314-1525.zip
March 15, 20242 yr Community Expert Solution 13 hours ago, LVLAaron said: Will it consume all available space? Not sure what you mean here, as long as the new devices are same size or large there won't be a problem.
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