July 24, 2025Jul 24 I have a Supermicro chassis with 35 hard disks in it and have recently made a few changes to reduce the drive count.I Have gone from 2 - 6TB Parity to 1 - 20TB and have rebuilt parity with this setup.I have 7 - 1 and 2TB disks throughout the array of 28 disks that have been completely emptied of data onto the remaining disks in the array.I was planning on stopping the array and removing the 7 smaller disks and restarting and letting parity rebuild, but am unsure of the process needed to do this.I would also like to reorder the disks remaining in a specific order but unsure if this is possible without just starting a new array configuration.Have a screenshot of how the array is currently configured and was wondering if I can just reassign the disks I will keep in the array to whatever slot I choose and let parity rebuild from this setup, or does this try and clear the assigned disks to rebuild the array?As can be seen once the 1 and 2TB disks are removed there will be gaps in the disk slots that should probably not exist? And I would like to organize the disk slots to match how they associate with the shares that are on them, I realize that doesn't matter to unraid management but it helps me keep organized within the array. Any help with this would be appreciated.
July 24, 2025Jul 24 Community Expert 1 hour ago, medmad said:I was planning on stopping the array and removing the 7 smaller disks and restarting and letting parity rebuild, but am unsure of the process needed to do this.Tools - New Config - remove the disks you don't want, and start the array to begin parity sync.1 hour ago, medmad said:I would also like to reorder the disks remaining in a specific order but unsure if this is possible without just starting a new array configuration.You can do that at the same time.
July 24, 2025Jul 24 Author Thank you JorgeB! I am assuming I should disable Dockers, VM's and Mover while I am rebuilding the Array?
July 24, 2025Jul 24 Community Expert Solution If they use the array for heavy i/o, it may be better for performance reasons, but it's not mandatory.
July 28, 2025Jul 28 Author Followed instructions provided by JorgeB and everything is working fine after parity rebuild.Thanks for the help.
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