May 23, 20242 yr Hi all I currently have 7 drives in my array, plus 2 separate cache drives. I have 4 8tb drives on their way and will arrive tomorrow. I am planning on using 2 of them as Parity drives and I'll be adding the other two to the array. I will probably need to stop using the 2 4tb drives which are currently in the array. What steps do I need to take to complete this? Thanks in advance!
May 23, 20242 yr Author Thank you for your advice. I did some reading and I came across this: This method would work just as well, right? I was thinking about doing this before adding Parity. I was thinking that once I've sorted out all the normal array drives I was then going to add the Parity drives. I was hoping this way would save some time. Either way I'll need to add the 2 Parity drives at some point; do I add them at the same time? How long can I expect the building of the Parity drives to take? I was planning to disable the Docker and VM's while completing the first parity sync; will this help the process?
May 23, 20242 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, HomerJ said: This method would work just as well, right? Yes. 4 minutes ago, HomerJ said: do I add them at the same time? No
May 23, 20242 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, HomerJ said: I was planning to disable the Docker and VM's while completing the first parity sync; will this help the process? If you are using the array for VM and docker it can help, if they are in pool(s) as recommend it won't matter.
May 23, 20242 yr Author Thanks! My VM's predominately use drives which are not in the array, but my Home Assistant VM would be running on a cache drives so I guess that won't matter. Same with Docker but I have Qbitorrent which saves files on another cache drives so I guess that would be fine too. What about Mover though; do I need to make sure that it doesn't run while Parity is building? So, I'll add just the one Parity drive and let it do it's thing before adding the 2nd Parity drive. How long can I expect it to take before I'm able to add the 2nd Parity drive?
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