j_mcarter2 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Is it possible to move the data off of a drive and have the drive permanently removed from the array? Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 There are only two ways for removing an array drive, both are described here. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Gragorg said: incomplete advice. What johnnie said. Quote Link to comment
j_mcarter2 Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by j_mcarter2 Quote Link to comment
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