Swap out a smaller drive


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Hi, so far I havent found an answer to this and I'm hoping you can help. I currently have 2x8TB disks and 1x3TB and I'm crazy so have no parity drive (but mostly because I'd need at least an 8TB disk and right now I dont have £220 to spend on something that will only be useful if something goes wrong. I do intend to sort that at some point and all my critical data is backed up elsewhere as well ).

 

Is there a way to stop unraid using the 3TB harddrive and move the data off it onto the larger ones, so I can replace it with a larger one? I think it can be done through a parity rebuild on the new hdd but can it be done without the parity?

 

Thanks in advance, sorry if I've missed the answer somewhere else.

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