Following my last post (new question/issue) I would love a sanity check. (old topic = https://forums.unraid.net/topic/193837-disk-read-errors/)

I've read multiple posts and piecing them all together this is what I gather.

I have 1 parity and 10 data drives. I had 2 data drives fail. I was not able to replace the drive one for one as I only had 1 parity.

I next loaded one of the drives via the UD Plugin and recover the data off of that drive. The second drive failed to mount.

So my sanity check starts here:

I want to do the following:

1) start fresh (keep data)

2) add 2 total parity disks

I also want to put data from a backup source to the whole array.

Would the following steps do that?

1) new config

2) don't add a parity to this config

3) put old drives and new drives into the config (order doesn't matter?)

4) start array

5) add data from backup source to array

once data is all copied over

6) stop array

7) add 2 disks in parity to config

8) sync parity to disk?

Does any of this make sense?

That shoudl work, and drive order doesn't matter in this case.