I currently have all my data moved over to unraid and my parity drive should be here Friday. I would like to  move/reorganize my drives in my case. How do I do this?

Since you have no parity drive installed, you can reorganize your drive however you want, either physically or logically (via the Devices page), or both.  unRAID will recognize your data disks and everything will work fine.  The only complications that can arise are when you have a parity drive installed.

I currently have all my data moved over to unraid and my parity drive should be here Friday. I would like to  move/reorganize my drives in my case. How do I do this?

 

Take screen shot of "Devices" page

Stop array

Power down

Install the parity drive.

Re-arrange data disks as needed.

Power up

Array will probably not start on it own, but if it does press Stop

Go to devices page, assign/re-assign drives to their respective logical "Disk" slots in the array.  Do not assign the parity drive just yet.

Go to the main page, start the array.  All should look normal

Stop the array

Go to the devices page, assign the parity drive

Go back to the main page, press "Start"    (may need to check the checkbox under it to enable it)

 

That's it.   Use the screen print of the disks to assist in re-assigning them on the devices slots after you physically re-arrange them and re-connect them to the disk controllers.  It is not necessary to connect the disks to the same disk controller ports.

 

If you elect to not use a port you previously used, the drive may show as missing.  If it does, you might need to type

initconfig

to initialize a new disk configuration to that represented by the currently assigned and working disks.

 

Joe L.

 

Thanks I will give it a try

In my machine this is how my drives are physically layed out.

 

sdf - data

sde - data

sdd - data

sdc - data

sdb - data

sda - Parity

 

Why that way? I'm guessing as I add more drives my pairity drive will always remain so I add new drives as I get them.

 

In my device page of course its just the opposite.

sda - Pairity

sdb - data

sdc - data

sdd - data

sde - data

sdf - data

 

No matter how you stack them make sure you label the drives on the back of them with your drive serial number so if say sdc dies and you need to replace it you could easily look at the serial number in your device page or the main page and when you shut down your array you make sure that

1) knowing the position of all your drives you know your pulling the right drive

2) knowing the serial number of all your drives since you can see them on the back you pull the right drive

 

 

I just happed to take this photo and my Pairity drive uses a red cable and my testing cache drive didn't have a label so don't beat me up for that one.

 

Since your rack mounting I'm guessing I'd probably do your drive physical drive layout a bit different, but I'd suggest something that makes complete since and avoid randomness.