So Tom is awesomely replacing my new 1510 because it has locked up a couple of times. Is this the correct way to replace the 2 data drives I have in the system sofar?

 

Both of my data drives and one parity disk were pre_cleared before they were added to the array. Both data drives obviously have been formatted and are active in the array as of now. Am I correct in thinking that when I place both of these back in the new system I will be able to readd them to the new box without reformatting (since they have reiserfs and have been already initialized by unraid)? If not, I could just insert a 3rd data disk, add it to the system, mv the data off of the already (old) drives which arent readded to the unraid gui, just mounted by hand somewhere, then once the old drive has been emptied I could properly add it back to the system.

 

Am I thinking about this correctly? I haven't had a whole lot of time yet to learn all of the ins and outs of unraid yet and am having to ship this back tonight or tomorrow so just had a couple of questions...

 

Thanks

Install the drives in the same spots and oot with the same flash drive and the array should just start. If it does not start, then go to the devices page and assign the drives to the same disk spots as they were before. Then, go to the main page and start the array.

 

unRAID cares very little about the hardware as long as it works and you get the disks assigned correctly.

 

Peter

 

Actually I am getting an entire new system, flash and all. So this new box will have no knowledge about my old system. Humm do I need then maybe just the super.dat and disks.cfg file copied off the old flash and placed on the new system once it arrives then?

Yes, you can copy those files.

 

Or, just assign the data drives to disk slots and the old parity drive to the parity slot. Make sure you get this right. Then, hit Restore and start the array. You will not have parity protection until the parity build is complete. If you don't like that then go to the Wiki and follow the Trust Parity procedure.

 

Peter

 

actually right now i havent even been able to calculate parity since the box keeps locking up during the procedure, so it is running protected as of now anyway. this is good, i will just keep track of my two data drives, put them in the new box in the two data slots and also put the parity drive back in its slot in the new box once i get it, then just recalc parity. i was just hoping i wouldnt have to copy all of my data back over to the box again. and it doesnt look like i do, which is good.