August 23, 20169 yr Running low on space, so I bought another 6TB WD Red. It precleared fine but when I went to assign the drive, it tells me that the parity slot isn't the biggest... The server is 2x 6TB WD Reds (1 parity) and 6x 3TB WD Reds. Adding an additional 6TB red. Supermicro - X9DR3-F 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz 120GB of Ram How do I proceed? This must be some sort of id10t error on my end...
August 23, 20169 yr Author Tools -> Diagnostics Attach zip. Sorry, it was late server-diagnostics-20160823-1007.zip
August 23, 20169 yr Community Expert You parity disk is a WD My Book for Mac, this disk was harvested from a USB enclosure, they are only slightly smaller, but enough so that it can't be used as parity together with normal disks, you have to use the new disk for parity and use the current parity as data disk.
August 23, 20169 yr Author You parity disk is a WD My Book for Mac, this disk was harvested from a USB enclosure, they are only slightly smaller, but enough so that it can't be used as parity together with normal disks, you have to use the new disk for parity and use the current parity as data disk. I bought this drive straight from Amazon and did not pull it from any type of enclosure. It came as a normal OEM drive. So I guess the parity swaps the only option?
August 23, 20169 yr Community Expert Not the first time this happens, you can confirm by entering the serial number on WD RMA page.
August 23, 20169 yr Author Not the first time this happens, you can confirm by entering the serial number on WD RMA page. Well that’s annoying.. I’ll go ahead and replace the parity disk and then expand it afterwards. thanks a lot
August 23, 20169 yr Community Expert Of the three WD60 you have only serial WX31DB58YYDX should be used as parity.
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