November 12, 20196 yr Hi everyone, i just wanted to confirm operation for this since the wiki information is a little dated. I recently upgraded my parity disks to two 8TB enterprise drives from 4TB enterprise ones, and I have about 5 3TB disks in my data array that I want to shrink down to 2 8TB drives for the time being. Im in the process of moving some parts around and wanted to take advantage of an Adaptec 71605Q so I could use Maxcache. After the shrink is complete I’m planning on connecting things up to my external sata jbods enclosures for another 72 disks. My maxcache SSD array is 8x 480gb SSD’s and I wanted to to use that as a cache accelerator for my rotational disks. Previously it was used solely as the data array in a previous build, however the lack of performance and TRIM/discard made me look for other options. My long term plan is to use nothing but nvme for cache in unraid. NVME > Maxcache > HDD i just added the 8TB HGST to the array as disk 6, my plan is to use unbalance once the rebuild is completed to move the exsisting data from the array to that. When it’s completed all I need to do is go to tools and select new config and pull the 3tb drives out of the array? Do I move slot 6 to slot 1? I haven’t really needed to do much heavy lifting with unraid since version 5? Thanks! Edited November 12, 20196 yr by Magicmissle
November 12, 20196 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, Magicmissle said: When it’s completed all I need to do is go to tools and select new config and pull the 3tb drives out of the array? Yes, then start array to run a parity sync. 1 hour ago, Magicmissle said: Do I move slot 6 to slot 1? As you prefer, that's optional. Edited November 12, 20196 yr by johnnie.black
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