DeadlyTitan

So I recently have a failed 16 TB Drive and its taking a while to get the RMA since I live in a very remote area and I am currently low on cash to buy replacements. Its been a month and I wonder if I can use the unraid without the failed drive. I do have parity, I kept my system powered down as I did not wanted to destroy my parity. I have disabled all dockers and made sure nothing writes to the array and excluded the failed drive from all the shared before removing it and I only turn the server on when I want to copy some data and then turn it off but I have been wondering if I can just use the server for regular purpose without destroying my parity. Thank you very much.

The drive stopped mid way while trying to do extended texts and shows as missing, it showed up again when I rebooted the system but i guess its safe to say that its dead. The thing I do not understand is how sudden it just died being a new drive.

Here you go, diagnostics of my server. I've decided to replace the drive since it stopped mid way and started showing read errors when trying to copy some data from it. I will RMA it but the question is how can I keep running my system now without that drive? Can I just stop the system, remove the drive and start it again and pretend nothing happened? while I wait for the RMA? or is there any procedure to do it? Thank you. tamatower-diagnostics-20240903-0152.zip

As the title suggested 2 days ago my new WD DC HC550 16 TB drive has been making mechanical sounds and I received email notifications saying * **disk5 has read errors** and seek error rate (failing now) emails. I do have parity and I had started moving everything on that disk to another and started excluding it from all the shares just to be sure. I bought the disk in Feb 2024 (This year), so its around 6 months old. I've attached smart reports. Thank you very much. WDC_WUH721816ALE6L4_3ZG3Z0JA-20240901-2255.txt