golli53 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 I'm trying to replace my 10tb parity with a new 14tb (current setup has 2x 10tb parity). I've read through the parity swap procedure below, but am wondering if there's anything different I need to do for a dual partiy setup and still be protected if a drive goes bad during the procedure. https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure Quote Link to comment
Morrtin Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 As far as I know. No there is nothing different. Here is an other good step by step guide: Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 55 minutes ago, golli53 said: I've read through the parity swap procedure below Parity swap is not needed for that, just do a standard replacement. Quote Link to comment
golli53 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Thanks I think I got confused. So could I add the new drive, reassign the old parity to a new data drive, and reassign the new drive to parity, then start array? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 You technically could, but it would make recovery much more difficult if one of your data drives decided to act up during the parity build. Much safer to do a simple standard replacement of one of the parity drives, let that complete, then add the drive you unassigned back as a data drive. After you have an old parity drive assigned as a data drive, be sure to make a new flash backup and destroy any obsolete copies of the super.dat file that are hanging around in old backups. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 10 hours ago, golli53 said: So could I add the new drive, reassign the old parity to a new data drive, and reassign the new drive to parity, then start array? No, you can add a new drive and sync parity at the same time. Quote Link to comment
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