September 3, 201411 yr Hi. I’m a longtime Unraid 4.6 user. It’s finally time to start using some larger hard drives so I need to upgrade. In order to go to version 5, I first have to upgrade to version 4.7. So here’s what I need help with: 1. I have a WD20EARS drive that I have been using as my parity drive. It has the jumper installed so I must have used the –a option when preclearing it but I can’t remember. It has, however, been working flawlessly for years. When going to 4.7 and then to version 5 after that, what precautions do I need to take with this disk? Can I use it in my upgraded server? Do I need to remove the jumper? Can I just leave it as is while setting the 4.7 server to 4K default? After that, what about the settings in the version 5 server? Do I need to preclear it again? Can I continue to use it as a parity drive? 2. I also have a WD10EACS disk. (No jumper.) Do I need to do anything special with this disk? All my other disks are Hitachi drives of various sizes. As you can see, I’m a bit confused so thanks in advance for the help! Jeff
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