December 5, 201312 yr Okay - so did some shopping and got 2x3TB drives and 1x 4TB drive. A random benefactor got me a HBA card that will be replacing my dated BR10i, which cannot use all of this extra space. I am also planning on firing up a jbod/das case since i am phsyically out of space in my current server. What's the best order to do this in without screwing something up? i've always tried to practice changing 1 thing a time - to avoid confusion of WHAT caused something to fail. Sooo to that end - this is my plan: Does it pass the Sanity Check? [*]Passthru new HBA to UnRaid [*] Boot and check to make sure drive assignments didn't change. [*] re-cable using same slots/positions as BR10i [*] Boot and check to make sure drive assignments didn't change. [*] Insert/upgrade new parity drive (at 4TB, this is the largest drive in the array, so default to parity). pre-clear first? [*] step thru parity replace process from wiki [http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Add_one_or_more_new_disks]. [*] connect port 0 of HBA to sas expander. [*] recable from expander to drives, using same physical locations/cable connections Port 0 for disks 1-4; port 1 for disks 5-8. [*] Boot and check to make sure drive assignments didn't change. [*] add remaining 3TB drives to array. Bonus Q; on pre-clear - can i pre-clear drives that are attached to the HBA, but not assigned a array slot (yet) ? what gotchas should I be wary of here?
December 5, 201312 yr Author This sounds like a VM. Ask in the virtualization forum. thanks... Can Mod delete this please? i clicked the remove message... but got an error saying that i can't delete it..will post in the virtualization forum.
December 6, 201312 yr Step 0. Perform parity check before you do all this. You would want your old parity valid in as the 4 tb one goes south during building or a data drive does.
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