February 23, 20188 yr Is it my imagination or can I now just replace a drive without preclearing first. No spare ports or space. I've read through various release notes but not found the answer. Kevin.
February 23, 20188 yr Community Expert 6 minutes ago, digitalfixer said: Is it my imagination or can I now just replace a drive without preclearing first. It's not just now, it's always been like that, a disk only needs to be cleared when it's added to a parity protected array.
February 23, 20188 yr Author So if I've got this right, I stop the array, Unassign the drive I want to remove, Power down and replace the old drive with a new drive (straight out of the box.) Power up and assign the new drive in place of the old, Start the array and let it rebuild the new drive. And the server is still useable while this is being done. Kevin
February 23, 20188 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, digitalfixer said: So if I've got this right, I stop the array, Unassign the drive I want to remove, Power down and replace the old drive with a new drive (straight out of the box.) Power up and assign the new drive in place of the old, Start the array and let it rebuild the new drive. And the server is still useable while this is being done. Kevin I think you may have to first start the array with the drive Unassigned to simulate a failure and get unRAID to forget the serial of the old drive, but otherwise the steps look correct.
February 23, 20188 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, digitalfixer said: Unassign the drive I want to remove, You can skip this step, rest is correct
February 23, 20188 yr Community Expert If you use this method, I would do a parity check thee-to-seven days later just to make sure that everything is still OK. (99+% pf the time it will be but you always want to catch the odd chance that the new HD is a victim of infant mortality.)
February 23, 20188 yr 8 hours ago, itimpi said: I think you may have to first start the array with the drive Unassigned to simulate a failure and get unRAID to forget the serial of the old drive, but otherwise the steps look correct. No need, simply shutdown the system, replace the drive, start the system and assign the new drive, then start the array.
February 26, 20188 yr Author Just one question before I start this. Will the content of the disk I'm replacing still be available for reading only via emulation during the rebuild of the new drive. Kevin.
February 26, 20188 yr Community Expert It will be available for read/write, though for performance reasons you should avoid heavy activity during the rebuild.
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