Harlo

ok ill give that a try. im going to wait till the parity check has finished so some time tomorrow ill stop the array and try the check. with that work though being there is no real drive there?

im currently running a parity check - dont think that will do much but worth a shot. im not an expert in unraid at all. i was really excited to find this addon to move data quickly so i could shrink the array and pull this device from the array. but unfortunately now im just seeing what i posted above.

no shes dead. i pulled it and its just ticking. not sure if its the head or the board. im hoping the board as once i move everything ill have spares and can swap boards hopefully get it back and recover the data. there is some very critical stuff that was on this that i really cant loose.

Hey there, i used unbalanced for the first time here. i have a dead drive that is in my unraid server. there was about 2.5 tb of data on the failed drive and it was running in emulated mode. when i ran the unbalanced to scatter all the data, i selected the other 8 drives in my array as the destination and let it rip. it ran for about an hour than gave errors. when i looked at the data on the failed (emulated) drive its showing a pile of random folders nothing in regards to my data. than like a moron i rebooted my unraid box... i lost the log file for the unbalanced scatter, also the drive now just says unmountable:unsupported or no file system. there was quite a bit of important data on this drive. any chance i can fix this? i am no longer able to view contents of this device. when i look at the share its self it appears 4tb less space (would account for the missing drive now)

Perfect! am i going about this the right way? or is there a better way ?

Good Day, I have a 4tb failed drive in my array. unfortunately i dont have any spare 4tb drives to swap into here and have it rebuild. what i want to do is follow Spaceinvader One's video on safely shrinking an array. im in the process of cleaning up some space that will allow me to use unbalanced to spread the contents of the failed (emulated) drive to all others in the array. than i would like to run the zero out script against the failed (emulated) drive to not loose my parity validation and finally remove the dead drive from the array. i guess - is this possible? the dead drive i have physically pulled out of the server - was trying a few tricks to get some life back with no avail. i have new drives on order however im going now to 18tb vs the 4's i have in there now. when the drives come, i need to add a new larger parity drive (18 TB) than a few additional disks. which i have never added/swapped a parity drive so nervous on this as well. Especially with the emulated drive currently running i would much rather get the dead drive removed from the array before i go mucking with the Parity drives and adding the additional 18s. finally ill be pulling out all the small drives when im finished. current setup is: Parity - 4tb 8x 4TB in array (including the dead one) 1x 3TB drive in array.