Use different data drive as last step in parity swap

[Blaz0r]

Hi,

I’m in the process of adding actual data center-tier storage to my unraid which is composed of scrap discs.

 

Currently I have:

2xWD Black 1TB (1 parity, 1 data)

1xWD RE2 500GB (data)

 

I just received 2 Seagate Exos 10TB and since I was having some problems with the 1TB data drive, I had to use the parity swap procedure.

 

The actual copy of parity has complete and it’s now rebuilding the missing 1TB data drive on the other 1TB that used to be my old parity drive.

 

But the question is: can I stop the array, just unassign the 1TB that used to be my parity drive and instead let it rebuild on the other 10TB I have? By doing this I would skip a useless rebuild since I’m going to remove it anyway.

[JorgeB]

You need to let it finish, if you stop a rebuild and replace the rebuilding disk with a larger one it will only be rebuilt with the size of the original one, in this case 1TB, after a reboot that disk will be detected as its original size, making you rebuild it again.