April 3, 20206 yr I've got 2 14tb drives mounted as unassigned and 4 8tb drives in an array. I moved all my data from the 14tb drives to the 8tb drives. I now need to add my 14tb drives to my array (one 14tb as parity). When I tried to do this I got this error: You may not add new disk(s) and also remove existing disk(s). What step am I missing? Also I would like to clear the 14tb drives of all data as well.
April 3, 20206 yr Community Expert I think Unraid may be getting confused by you trying to simultaneously trying to add a parity drive and a new data drive. Have you tried doing them separately? If you do not already have a parity drive then try adding the data drive first and then the parity drive as that will be faster.
April 3, 20206 yr Community Expert 16 minutes ago, qmatic said: You may not add new disk(s) and also remove existing disk(s). The error is not helpful, old bug, but like itimpi mentioned you can't add parity and a data drive at the same time.
April 3, 20206 yr Author I did try and it gave the same error What I ended up doing was start a new array with the 14tb drives and formatted them. Took down the array and started a new one with the 4 8tb drives with the newly formatted 14tb drives. It's syncing right now so it seems to be good to go!
April 3, 20206 yr Community Expert 18 minutes ago, qmatic said: I did try and it gave the same error That would suggest another issue, like if you for example had a disabled disk, but can only guess without the diags.
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