Hello,

 

I want to upgrade my current 500GB NVME cache drive with a 2TB NVME drive, but I'm unsure of how to go about it. The only methods I've seen so far either transfer everything to array first or require having mirrored drives. I would really prefer not transferring to array, as I have a lot of plex and jellyfin (150GB+ combined) metadata and that will take more than a week to transfer one way. I have an extra 500GB NVME as well, if that would help.

 

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Do you have a second M.2 slot available?

 

 

What format is the current cache pool?   If it is btrfs then you can do the upgrade without first copying the data off, but if it is xfs then copying the data elsewhere is required.

1 hour ago, Faceman said:

Do you have a second M.2 slot available?

 

 

I have 3 slots total, yes

1 hour ago, itimpi said:

What format is the current cache pool?   If it is btrfs then you can do the upgrade without first copying the data off, but if it is xfs then copying the data elsewhere is required.

it's xfs sadly

3 hours ago, MyNameHand said:

it's xfs sadly

Then you will have to copy the data elsewhere I am afraid as xfs does not support multi-drive pools and changing the format erases current contents.

On 10/5/2024 at 12:20 AM, MyNameHand said:

it's xfs sadly

Another option, probably quicker than going to the array and back, is to create another single device pool with the new drive, and copy directly from drive to drive. After the copy is verified, rename both pools, giving the new pool the correct name after renaming the old pool.

On 10/15/2024 at 10:03 AM, JonathanM said:

Another option, probably quicker than going to the array and back, is to create another single device pool with the new drive, and copy directly from drive to drive. After the copy is verified, rename both pools, giving the new pool the correct name after renaming the old pool.

Yea I ended up doing this lol