Blinking green drive status light

[davephan]

I am using unRAID 4.7, I haven't upgraded yet. My drive 2 was bad, as indicated when booting up the computer, but not red in the runRAID GUI, although that drive had many errors. I replaced the bad drive 2 with a new drive. The drive 2 "upgraded", then the drive 2 "rebuilt". Now, my drive 1 has 2 parity errors and the replaced drive 2 has a blinking green. I searched for the blinking green drive status and couldn't find anything yet. What does a green blinking drive status mean, and what should I do to fix it?

 

I thought about upgrading from unRAID 4.7 to the current version of unRAID. I have a 20 drive license for version 4.7.  Currently, all 10 drives are 2.0 TB. I don't know how to determine if my hardware will accept drives larger than 2.0 TB. Or, if I need to replace my 7 year old Supermicro system board, CPU, and memory with new hardware. I don't know how to determine if the older hardware will accept larger than 2.0 TB drives. I don't know the drive size limit for the current unRAID version. I'd want to increase the parity drive to the maximum drive size with the new unRAID build. If I upgrade, I'd need to buy more USB hard drives to back up all my data first. 

[itimpi]

Unraid 4.7 was limited to 2TB drives.    From v5 onwards there is no practical limit (Not sure if that is quite true - it could well be 1000TB but nobody has that sort of drive ) - anyway any drive you can currently buy is supported by v6.   If you want to get feedback on whether drives larger than 2TB are supported by your hardware I suggest you post the details as someone here is likely to know.

 

You could also try creating a USB stick for v6 and confirm that It boots on your hardware.   Chances are high that a system that is 7 years old supports drives larger than 2TB and is 64-bit capable (which is required for v6).