May 19, 20242 yr So I ordered a couple of 16TB drives to replace a couple of my 4TB drives. I plan to replace the parity drive first, and I plan on just powering down, replacing the drive, reassigning parity to the new 16TB and starting the array. Do I have to do anything to make all the space on the new drive used correctly on the parity or data drives? Then I was thinking the old drives are 512b but these new ones are 4k, but given the way that unraid does the array I would think that wouldn't be an issue.... right?
May 19, 20242 yr Solution Nothing to be done. Just replace the old drives with the new ones one at a time and start the array and the OS will rebuild the appropriate contents and expand the file system to take advantage of the extra space (once you get to the data drives)
May 19, 20242 yr Author cool ty, thats what i was hoping. ive been lucky and only had to replace a drive once and it wasnt parity
May 10, 20251 yr How did it go? Is this an xfs-formatted standard array (not a pool), with the drives being mixed (512 and 4kn)? If so, are all the drives writing at 100+ MB/s? Hope things have been running smoothly.
May 11, 20251 yr Community Expert There shouldn't be any issues by mixing 512e and 4Kn devices, with the array or a pool.
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