October 3, 20196 yr I know this asked many times but i have some questions I feel make this situation different. First im using r710 currently with per6/i. So the drive labels passed to unraid will be different which im okay with. New system is intel with LSI sata controller. I plan to move all data off cache drive before starting move. Does the parity get moved with the system or rebuild when move complete? Also I have 2 tb hardrives, all 4. I have over 2 tb free, should i transfer all data off 1 of the disk before the move? So My array is down to 2 disk(2 array,0 parity)? Top blank line is parity drive which is 2 tb. Edited October 3, 20196 yr by scubieman
October 3, 20196 yr Given the totallity of what you are trying to do, I strongly recommend leaving the old config completely alone, and just purchase another pair of reasonably sized drives, probably 8TB. The advantages to keeping your old drives as backups, having much faster and newer drives in the new system, not dealing with possible partition layout issues, etc, etc, makes much more sense than juggling data around on the current drives and risking data loss.
October 3, 20196 yr Author Couldnt I pull parity drive out and 1 of the array drives and put into the new system then transfer? I do have 1 brand new drive in the r710. 2 are about year old and last one is very old.
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