October 18, 200619 yr This is nothing special but I thought, for the lurkers who don't yet own the software and are evaluating, it might be interesting. I have been running the software for 2 or 3 weeks now without issue. I have a 12 drive system (See specs in my signature) with most of my 11 data drives almost full. I have been watching the syslogs religiously, as Tom can attest, and haven't had any issues. I have also been running a parity check once every three days or so. (Wholly unnecessary, I know.) Yesterday was the first time I have performed what I consider a major operation with unraid. I swapped out a maxtor 300 gig SATA drive with a 400 gig seagate. I followed notes that Tom gave on this thread - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=270.0 and had no issues whatsoever. I first backed up my flash to my main machine. Next, I stopped then powered off the array using the web gui, then pulled the old drive and slid the new one in it's place. After coming back up unraid recognized that a new drive was present and asked me what I would like to do. I then made an additional back up of the super.dat file per Tom's instructions. Next, I checked the "Yes I want to do this" box and started the array. The array proceeded to restore the data that was on the drive that was pulled and expand to fill the new drive. This process took about 8 hours total. After it was finished, I had the new disk with 100 gigs extra space and no errors at all. Being anal, I ran CRC verification on the rebuilt files just to be sure and they came out 100% OK. I then ran a full parity check which returned with no errors as well. (Overkill, I know). So there you have it. Things could not have gone any better, and having been through a rebuild I know feel very confident in unraid's stability. Especially with the 3.0 Final release. I know that it is not perfect and others have had issues but I could not be happier. FYI: I took the SATA drive that I removed and popped into my windows box to test Yarg (A gui prog to access ReiserFS drives) and it worked perfectly.
October 18, 200619 yr Author Addendum: My array crashed horribly and I lost ALL data seconds after posting my previous message. (just joking)
October 18, 200619 yr hypyke, Nothing like the sweet smell of success!! I too have not had any problems with my two unRaid Servers! Regards, TCIII
October 18, 200619 yr Very happy to hear... next you should swap out your parity drive... you shouldn't see any problems.... I will be upgrading my parity and 3 other drives this weekend (if I actually get some time)
October 18, 200619 yr Author Yep, the 400 gig I swapped was from the fry's sale. I am just glad that I ONLY bought 1 drive this time.
October 19, 200619 yr Hi all, I have replaced both 300GB parity drives in my two unRaid servers with the Seagate 400GB drives from Fry's and did not have any problems with the upgrade while using version 3.0beta2. I have since converted to the final version 3.0, but have not run any parity checks yet. I usually do a server parity check once a month and that will be around the end of October. Regards, TCIII
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