1 single HDD, wanting to upgrade to 1 single SSD

[Rso81]

I currently use UnRAID ver 6.8.3, with a single 250GB HDD.  
 

I would like to upgrade to a single 512GB SSD.

 

i don’t need fault tolerance as this is strictly for use as an OTA DVR solution (of which is absolutely not critical if a drive fails).

 

How can I simply clone the HDD into the SSD?  Would I do this?

 

1. add the SSD in the array as a “parity”

2. Unplug the HDD so that it “fails”.

 

would the array then reassign the SSD as the data drive?

 

if not, how can I accomplish what I am trying to do?

[Pducharme]

Hi @Rso81.  I doubt the planned way you suggest will work like that.  I think the easiest for you would be to add the SSD in the Array, then use the plugin "unBALANCE" to have a WebGUI to do the move of all the files and folders from Disk1 (250GB) to Disk2 (SSD).  Or, you could do a quick "mv" command in ssh if you like CLI.

[Rso81]

Thank you for the clarification.....so I could just format the ssd to xfs, open up a CLI window and do a mv /mnt/disk1/* /mnt/disk2, rip out the old drive and call it a day?

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, Rso81 said:

1. add the SSD in the array as a “parity”

2. Unplug the HDD so that it “fails”.

 

would the array then reassign the SSD as the data drive?

This should work, but you'd need to do a new config to re-assign parity as an array device, still probably best just to copy from one to another.

[Pducharme]

You should listen to @johnnie.black, he is THE disk/file system Guru here.