July 26, 20196 yr Is it possible to move the data off of a drive and have the drive permanently removed from the array?
July 26, 20196 yr Yes. Stop the array and unassign the drive you want to remove and restart the array. It will require a parity rebuild thou. I have used the unbalance docker in the past to copy the data of the drive to other drives on the array. Why do you want to remove the drive?
July 26, 20196 yr Community Expert There are only two ways for removing an array drive, both are described here.
July 26, 20196 yr Author I have too many drives. Sixteen total but I'm on V5 with one parity drive. I'm going to push to V6 and add a second parity drive which will give me seventeen total. My hot swap case only holds fifteen and two drive will be just laying inside the case. Time to dump so old 250gig drives. FYI going to push to V6 before I do any drive removal Edited July 26, 20196 yr by j_mcarter2
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