January 14, 20206 yr Hi, I'm looking to remove some smaller drives from my 16 bay array to free up bays for future larger drives. I assume i can copy the contents of the 4 x 4TB drives to the larger drives, and once those are empty, stop the array and remove them? Then parity sync again Is this best practice?
January 14, 20206 yr Community Expert There are 2 options to shrink the array, both are described here: https://wiki.unraid.net/Shrink_array Also when copying contents make sure to copy from disk to disk, never from disk to share or share to disk.
January 14, 20206 yr I found the Unbalance plugin works very well for moving the files off the old drives to a disk or disks of your choosing. That way you can maintain parity the entire time with the "Clear Drive the Remove Drive" method. Edited January 14, 20206 yr by Gragorg
January 14, 20206 yr Community Expert 20 minutes ago, Gragorg said: That way you can maintain parity the entire time with the "Clear Drive the Remove Drive" method. Unbalance is a good and easy option to move the data, but it doesn't "clear" a drive, like any other copy method used, empty drive ≠ clear drive.
January 14, 20206 yr Author Thanks guys, this looks straightforward enough, been using unraid for years so hopefully will be a breeze! (i'll be posting in a few days saying i've somehow lost my 97TB of data!_
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