johnlo Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 I have a question: Recently upgraded my parity drive from 3TB to 8TB. The old 3TB parity drive is still good and would like to continue to use, but as 3TB data drive. I would like to replace the 2TB with the 3TB Drive. Do I have to do anything with the old 3TB drive? or Can I just assign the drive and parity will do its thing?!? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, johnlo said: or Can I just assign the drive and parity will do its thing?!? ^this 1 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Be sure you get a backup of flash after you make any changes to disk assignments. Reusing parity as data is exactly the scenario that will give you a surprise if you try to use an old flash backup. (hint: the old backup will think that data disk is still parity). And in general, you should always have a current backup of flash. Go to Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup to download a zipped copy of flash. 1 Quote Link to comment
johnlo Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 21 hours ago, johnnie.black said: ^this 19 hours ago, trurl said: Be sure you get a backup of flash after you make any changes to disk assignments. Reusing parity as data is exactly the scenario that will give you a surprise if you try to use an old flash backup. (hint: the old backup will think that data disk is still parity). And in general, you should always have a current backup of flash. Go to Main - Boot Device - Flash - Flash Backup to download a zipped copy of flash. Thanks guys. Started the rebuild this morning. Seems pretty easy. Hopefully it work when I get home tonight Quote Link to comment
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