November 27, 2025Nov 27 I'm on unRAID 7.2.x. I had 2x cache drives. 2 SSDs of size 256 GB (sdb) and 250 GB (sdc) respectively. 256 GB (/dev/sdb) is failing from a hardware standpoint.I have a spare 1 TB SSD (sdd). I throw it in and added it to the cache pool. It's now part of the BTRFS pool.I have the data from /dev/sdb1 copied and backed up. I need to drop /dev/sdb entirely, but I cannot since BTRFS complains about "Too many wrong or missing drives".One solution said I can convert the BTRFS pool from Single to RAID1, but I can't find where to do this. Most of the documentation appears to be for unRAID 6.x.I'm not sure what information I need to provide to you all in order to help me out.
November 27, 2025Nov 27 Author I've now changed all Shares that were set to Cache to now be Cache -> Array. I've started the mover, but it's ridonculously slow. About 100 MB/minute. But it's moving.The only one I'm not sure of is my docker.img file which is at /mnt/cache/docker.img. Since it's not a share, I figure I'll have to stop docker, move the image, update the location, then start docker again.
November 27, 2025Nov 27 Community Expert Mover can be slow when moving lots of small files, but it will do the job.docker.img will need to be moved manually, or you can just recreate it.
November 27, 2025Nov 27 Author Yes, I have everything migrated off, so the cache drive is now sitting idle. I just have no idea how to terminate the cache pool so I can recreate it.
November 27, 2025Nov 27 Community Expert You can create on the pool device and then "remove pool", then add the new one.
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Author JorgeB, I apologize. Can you explain what you mean when you say "create on the pool device"?
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Community Expert I meant you can create a new pool with the new device, after removing the old one; just click "add pool"
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Author That's the problem. I can't remove the old one. I have no option to do so. I can't remove a drive from the existing cache pool, either.Or more specifically, if I CAN do it, I don't know how.
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Community Expert Solution To remove a pool, click on the first pool device and then "remove pool"
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