So I've finally got myself a couple 2TB drives precleared and ready to install.

 

One drive will be assigned to a fresh slot giving me a 2TB jump and the second one will replace an exising 1TB drive.

 

I've got sabnzbd, sickbeard and a couple other clients sat on my cache doing download duties but before I start I wanted to check if its safe to leave downloaders active or should I kill the processes for all the downloaders before I do the swap from the 1TB drive to the 2TB? I already dug out the HDD replacement guide to familiarise myself with it (only replaced parity in past) but I don't want to break anything from lack of asking a simple question.

 

I'm I putting any data at addiional risk by having downloaders active while replacing to a larger drive (and allowing the data to rebuild to the new drive)??

 

cheers

It wouldn't matter much if they're doing the downloading on the cache and you're replacing a data disk. Try to do the data disk replacement during a time when the mover won't run though. If you want to do it during the night then disable the mover.

well at the moment I haven't got the cache set to actually work on any shares so the mover shouldn't be doing anythng I would guess.

 

The downloaders store the downloaded info on the cache drive and as part of the scripting on sabnzbd it them moves the data to its right place on '/mnt/user/TVShow' or '/mnt/user/Movies' so this will write the data to the array (and parity calcs etc)

 

I might just play it safe and do it after the weekend where I know I'm not causing too much problem disabling the downloaders for a day or two - hoping the data rebuild won't take too long