March 29, 20179 yr Hi guys, Quick question! I have four drives in the array. One of them is empty. Browsing the drive shows no objects or directories. I don't have the parity drive just yet. I'm waiting for the initial (massive) copy of files to finish so assign the parity to improve performance. Since I don't have any data and no parity can I just simply stop the array, replace the drive and assign the new one? Other drives data wont be affected, right? I don't have backup yet. (I know =] ) Thanks in advance!
March 29, 20179 yr 15 minutes ago, CDebarry said: Since I don't have any data and no parity can I just simply stop the array, replace the drive and assign the new one? Other drives data wont be affected, right? Correct, but you will have to set a new config to force unraid to forget the serial number of the removed drive from that slot.
March 29, 20179 yr Author 4 minutes ago, jonathanm said: Correct, but you will have to set a new config to force unraid to forget the serial number of the removed drive from that slot. Thanks for the reply. Can I reassign the drive in any order? Does it even matter?
March 29, 20179 yr Community Expert Just now, CDebarry said: Thanks for the reply. Can I reassign the drive in any order? Does it even matter? Assuming you don't have anything configured to expect certain things to be on certain drives, then order only matters if you have 2 parity drives.
March 29, 20179 yr Author Thanks trurl. I dont. I'll replace de drive with fingers crossed. lol Thanks for the quick replies.
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