Hi,

 

I have an Unraid array and have just swapped out my parity drive for a new drive (and ran parity check). I now want to replace disk 4 (a 500GB) with the old parity drive (2TB). I understood to take the array offline, power down, swap drives and then when I assign disk 4 to the new drive it would blue ball, then I should say "I'm sure".

 

However, when I powered up and selected the 2TB drive it say "wrong" (with red ball). Is this because it senses it's already formatted and is the wrong drive? Can I proceed anyway and this drive will be overwritten or will it trust the 2TB drive and lose my data?

 

Thanks,

 

Jim

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Hi, sorry, not at the server at the moment so can't. Surely what I described is enough though?

Here's the screenshot

Any ideas guys? The old 500GB drive has gone so I cant put that back, so I need to make sure I get this right.

 

It says "Start will bring the array on-line, start Data-Rebuild, and then expand the file system.", which sounds right to me, but the wiki post I read said it should be a blue ball next to the drive, so I need to be sure.

"Start will bring the array on-line, start Data-Rebuild, and then expand the file system."

 

That's exactly what you want to happen ... just Start the array and let it proceed.

 

"Start will bring the array on-line, start Data-Rebuild, and then expand the file system."

 

That's exactly what you want to happen ... just Start the array and let it proceed.

 

Cool, thanks, it's doing it's thing now