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Hi forum,

currently i run my HDA on a PC with 3 HDDs. 1 x 1,5 TB WD Green for system, swap and Greyhole and 2 x 2 TB WD Green just for Greyhole.
After read some not so good news about WD GReen HDs and Load Cycle Count problems i had a look and saw, that my LCC has reached about 200.000 for the 1,5 TB disk. All tipps and trick with WD-Tools and hdparm didn't work.
Ok, not a big deal. I will replace it with a (older) 500 GB WD Blue which do not have this LCC-bug.
What's the best way to move the old system to the new HDD?
With greyhole it's clear. I will tell gh that this hdd will going and gh will (hopefully) copy all the date to the remaoning disks.
But who to copy the system itself without the need to reinstall it?

Thanks and best regards


spline

I'm no expert but...

3 of 4 of my storage drives (which are all pooled with greyhole) are WD Greens. I've seen no issues so far and I've had my HDA running for a year now.

If you wanted to move everything, I would suggest...

1. get an image of the system drive and put it on the same size drive
Fedora is rather good with hardware changes.
You _may_ need to fix GRUB.

2. As for your shares on Greens that you want on something else..... buy the new drives and mount them but don't let amahi touch them yet....
Connect the old greens that have all your data via an enclosure... offload the greens directly to the new drives. THese don't need to be imaged because it's just data.
Then mount the drives and add them to the pool. Initiate a "greyhole --fsck" and it should find everything and be just as it was before...

you may need a reboot or 2.