August 12, 20178 yr Hi Hoping some more experience unraid users can give me their opinion on the following procedure and advise if I have missed anything or made any errors. I want to shrink my array by removing 3 old hard disk drives (a 500 GB and a couple of 1 TB drives) and also replace my current 8 TB Seagate archive (SMR) parity drive with a faster non-SMR 8 TB drive and add the archive drive as a data disk to the array. Pre-clear new 8 TB drive. Move all data from the 3 old drives I want to remove. Remove the 3 old drives from any shares they were included in. Take screen shot of my current drive assignments. Stop array then go to Tools – New Config – Retain current Config – Apply. Unassign the 3 drives I want to remove. Unassign current SMR parity drive. Assign the new non SMR as parity drive Assign old SMR parity drive as a data drive. Don’t click check box for Parity is valid. Start the array. Wait for parity to build.
August 12, 20178 yr Community Expert Looks like you've got it! Just check and make sure the only drive it wants to format is the old parity you assigned as data. And double-check your connections.
August 14, 20178 yr Author Thanks Trurl Everything went fine. Edited August 14, 20178 yr by patient000
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