Hi I have unraid 5.06 running with 7 drives. 1 4tb parity, 4-3tb disk, 1-2tb disk, and 1-1tb cache drive. Running on a ASUS Z87 plus motherboard. It has 8 sata ports and I am using 7 of them.
I purchased a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card and 4 more 3tb hard drives. I am trying to figure out the proper or best order to go about adding this new equipment. Should I add the supermicro card with the new drives attached? Or add the card first then add the drives one by one? Should I do this with my exist array drives attached? Then preclear the 4 new drives without upsetting the existing 7 drives?
Basically what I am doing is adding 4 more data drives + a expansion card. Thanks.