Sparkie

Thanks for the information, that's very helpful. On a whim I checked the local BestBuy and they had an 8TB WD Red SAS drive which I purchased. So from what I have read given my Parity drives are 6TB the max size of this new drive in the array will be 6TB. In the meantime I will shutdown and restart the server and see if the 'failed' drive comes back online. If so I will download a new diagnostics and post. Again, thanks very much for the quick response, very much appreciated. Cheers, Sparkie

Hello Guys: Need a little help on this one. I have a Seagate Ironwolf drive in my array, 6TB data-drive which is failing (I think). 7200RPM. I have two 6TB Parity drives (Seagate Ironwolf as above) and another 6TB Seagate datadrive (again same). No errors from these drives. All the other drives are WD and Hitachi. Got to eventually get around to replacing the smaller drives with bigger ones to free up space in the array cabinet LOL. I am going to RMA the drive back to Seagate after checking the warranty status which expires in 7 days, Yikes! Just in time. I have already received an RMA authorization from Seagate BUT they require me to ship the drive to them before they will send a replacement. This will take about 7-10 days round trip. Hopefully sooner. I have not rebooted Unraid until I hear from you guys nor have I stopped and restarted the array. I have been getting sector errors and I/O errors on this 'failed' drive and such as seen in the logs. So what is the best means to remove the 'failed' drive without causing further issues with the array. And can I run without the failed drive in the array and when the new replacement arrives then pre-clear and so-on? I have attached diagnostics. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Sparkie tower-diagnostics-20220528-1305.zip