skylark Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Can i ask for a bit of assistance please? I have successfully replaced a 6TB parity drive with an 8TB and parity is again valid. I now want to use the old parity drive to replace one of the existing 4TB data drives to give me an extra 2TB of space. What steps do i need to take to achieve this? Is it as simple as removing the 4TB and inserting the old parity disc in its place? Will the system recognise the missing disc and rebuild or not? And .. do i need to preclear the old parity drive before i reassign it as a data drive? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Is it as simple as removing the 4TB and inserting the old parity disc in its place? Will the system recognise the missing disc and rebuild or not? Yes. And .. do i need to preclear the old parity drive before i reassign it as a data drive? Assuming the disk was working OK for a while and there are no pending sectors there's no need to preclear. Quote Link to comment
skylark Posted March 15, 2016 Author Share Posted March 15, 2016 Thanks! So there's no problem sticking the old parity disk in alongside the now increased parity? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Thanks! So there's no problem sticking the old parity disk in alongside the now increased parity? No problem. Quote Link to comment
skylark Posted March 15, 2016 Author Share Posted March 15, 2016 Thanks again. It's rebuilding now. Just 10 hours to go! Quote Link to comment
S80_UK Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Don't forget to run a non-correcting parity check when you've finished just to ensure that everything that was written to the drive can be read back. Quote Link to comment
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