Can I add any Hard drive disk to any Disk slot??

[Gizo]

Recently had issues getting every thing back up and going. My question is can I add any disk in all slots? are do they have to be in the right hard drive slots. i.e Disk 1 should only cotain the disk that was previously in it?

 

Thanks in advance

[JorgeB]

With single parity data drive order is not important, it is with dual parity (or just parity2).

[Gizo]

Just a single parity drive all seems to be good now bout 22 hrs and I'll know for sure.

the one parity in the incorrect slot was labeled "WRONG". I changed it ASAP and re started the check

[trurl]

2 minutes ago, Gizo said:

the one parity in the incorrect slot was labeled "WRONG"

You must be absolutely sure you never assign a disk with data on it to any parity slot or its data will be overwritten with parity.

[Gizo]

4 hours ago, trurl said:

You must be absolutely sure you never assign a disk with data on it to any parity slot or its data will be overwritten with parity.

It there a way to do this when your not sure? I took pics of the HDD list orders but wouldnt you have guessed it. It service....

[trurl]

If you aren't sure which disk(s) is parity don't assign any disk to any parity slot. Assign them all to data slots. Parity should be the only disk(s) that appears unmountable when you start since parity has no filesystem to mount.