I have need to move a drive from a hotswap cage to inside the case.  Will this be as simple as stopping the array, powering down and moving the drive?  Or, does unraid somehow map the drive to a particular sata input such that moving the drive will cause a problem.

 

Thank you 

 

 

Make sure you take note of your drive assignments from within the GUI and then before you turn on your array you verify each serial number is assigned to its Disk or Parity location and then you should be good to go. I normally take a screen shot of all my drives and when I make any changes check it before I turn on the array.

Depends on which version of unraid. Early versions could lose track of a drive after you moved it, later versions shouldn't have an issue.

 

If you follow kizer's advice you shouldn't have any issues.

As noted, all recent versions (v5 or later) of UnRaid track disks by serial number -- not by which SATA port they're attached to, so you can freely change the ports.

 

 

Note that the internal drive designation (sda, sdb) etc is likely to change but that doesn't matter in unRAID 5+ as Gary mentions since unRAID uses the serial number now to map the drive to the appropriate slot.