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Can I change the location of my disks after setting up an HA cluster?

Last modified date: 2025-06-20

Applicable Products

QuTS hero h5.3.0 or later
High Availability Manager

Answer

Do not change the physical locations of your disks after creating a high-availability (HA) cluster.

Moving your installed disks into different slots may disrupt the connection between the two NAS devices and cause the cluster to malfunction.

Note

You can still safely move disks that are not part of any storage pool without needing to remove the HA cluster.
To prevent data loss, always back up important data before performing any operations involving disks.
If you move any disks, always make sure the corresponding disks on both devices are moved to matching disk slots.

Further Reading

What should I do if I see a disk error or storage related warning message?

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