Greetings,

 

today I installed a new 8TB drive to replace to of my old ones which showed SMART errors. I also rewired another drive (3TB) because of this and noticed, that the power-cable was very loose, so I unplugged it and the plastic nose-piece surrounding the pins of the power-connector was broken.

 

Oh well, another HDD that's "lost". The big bummer: I already added this 3TB drive to the array and copied data to it. I disconnected the drive and removed it from the server, added in the new 8TB one and booted up. unRaid claims rightfully that the 3TB drive (was Disk2 in the array) is missing and I therefore can't start the array up.

 

I thought I could simply choose the new 8TB HDD in the array devices list and start up the array. Important note: I don't have any parity disk right now (those will come next year).

unRaid simply states "Wrong" when I choose the 8TB. I'm aware that the data on the 3TB one is lost (if my fix with glueing the piece back on doesn't work for the short copy time), but how can I start back up the array?

 

 

Thanks for the read/support.

-Tools -> New Config -> Retain current configuration: All -> Apply

 

Then go back to the main page, assign new disk and start array

Thanks for the fast reply @johnnie.black

What will happen to the data on the other disks in the array?

The info-text and the wiki text aren't quite clear about that.

 

I still have two other disks (disk1 and disk3) in the array, which are completely fine and I don't want to loose the data on them. Will I have to reconfigure everything regarding the array like usershares?

Edited November 4, 20178 yr by Dr_Cox1911

Data and shares on the existing disks is not touched.

Thanks! Worked like a charm and think this will be very useful in the future.

Might need some clarification in the wiki that no data is touched.