From that picture, I want to swap disks 6 and 7 to be where disks 1 and 2 are. Is this possible?

 

The reason I want to do this is because I'm upgrading 6 of my drives to 20TB Exos and the last two 10TB drives are still within return window and would like to remove them first to return them. My plan is to only have the 6 Exos on my array after I'm done replacing my old drives.

 

Any help will be very appreciated

Edited July 4, 20242 yr by MyNameHand

With parity1 it's possible, just do a new config, re-assign the disks and check "parity is already valid" before array start.

2 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

With parity1 it's possible, just do a new config, re-assign the disks and check "parity is already valid" before array start.

Oh perfect, thank you so much

14 hours ago, MyNameHand said:

My plan is to only have the 6 Exos on my array after I'm done replacing my old drives.

Keep in mind that Unraid doesn't move files from one array slot to another automatically, so the drive that is removed instead of rebuilt will need to have its content copied elsewhere, and when you remove the drive parity will need to be recalculated for just the remaining drives.

 

Ask if any of that doesn't make sense, I don't want you to lose data by making bad assumptions.

50 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

Keep in mind that Unraid doesn't move files from one array slot to another automatically, so the drive that is removed instead of rebuilt will need to have its content copied elsewhere, and when you remove the drive parity will need to be recalculated for just the remaining drives.

 

Ask if any of that doesn't make sense, I don't want you to lose data by making bad assumptions.

Yeah, I'm planning on spreading the data from those two drives to the remaining 6 with unbalanced. Thank you for the reply and reminder.