I just want to make sure what the best course of action is for my situation.
Currently my parity drive is 18TB. I have a new 20TB drive ready and was planning to update the parity with it.
Now one of my 14TB data drives threw 12,310 Errors and disk log shows a lot of the following errors:
Tower kernel: I/O error, dev sdh, sector 26866835136 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 128 prio class 2
At the same time UDMA CRC error count jumped to 1813. So far it hasn't gone higher after switching to a different SATA cable.
When I switch out the drive with a new one the errors would get fixed from parity?
Problem is, I can't use the 20TB on hand unless I do a procedure I found that's called a parity swap, but I am unsure if this is advisable or even still supported.
Alternative would be to get another 18TB to replace the data disk first and then upgrade parity later.