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@itimpi I'm a little confused on best approach on adding and rebuilding my replaced hard drive. I'm somewhat following what you are saying but just looking for the best, easiest and fastest approach.
 
I do not need to replace the 24TB parity drive as it is only 5 months old, so I have changed my mind on that.
The 16TB drives are coming up on 5 years of age.
HD 1 is empty 16TB
HD2 is 98% full @ 15.7TB free space of 342GB mostly TV @ 13.7TB MEDIA ONLY
HD 3 and 4 is 4% are about 3.5TB each used out of 16TB
HD 5 is 67% full @ 16.1TB used out of 24TB MEDIA ONLY
 
2 and 5 are media drives only as I wanted to allow for spin down on as many drives as possible I want to limit where media is. Now I screwed up in the original setup (years ago) putting all media in a media share instead of breaking it out into many individual shares.
 
So with your knowledge and experience how would you do it today and going forward? (steps to take)

solution
 
 

Well I was a tester and tried 6.12 plain Jane; it did not change the outcome it will not boot past the Bootup Gui.
Plain Jane 6.11.5 will startup as expected.
 
So now this Precision Tower 5820 Xeon W-2155 32Gig, 10Gig NIC can be added to the unsupported list.