Hi all. 
 

One of my old drives (8tb) just died. I got a great deal on a few 12tb drives. 
 

The problem is my parity drive is only 10tb. 
 

What is the best way to upgrade/replace/rebuild?

 

best, J

I did some digging. Looks like this is going to be a long and expensive process.

Looks like I have to:
-Buy yet another a new 8-10Tb drive.

- Rebuild/replace my dead 8Tb.
- Add my new 12TB and replace as new Parity.
- Add additional Drives, including my old parity.

Can anyone confirm that there is no easier way?

Thanks, J

 

You can use the parity swap.

Are you sure I can use parity swap, when i have a dead disc in my current array?
Best, J

That's exactly what the parity swap procedure if for, when there' a disabled disk, and the replacement is larger than the current parity

Perfect - Thanks! (I just don't understand how Unraid can rebuild Parity and array with the "old" parity unassigned and a dead drive - I really really can't lose my data)

1 hour ago, IWasJustHere said:

and array with the "old" parity unassigned

The old parity is used as the replacement disk, it's not unassigned.

Great. I stopped reading after step 2 -  unassign parity

 

Thanks again!