trurl

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  1. If the SMART report is bad enough, you should rebuild it to a new disk. Then you don't need to move anything.

     

    If you don't want to replace the disk, then you could move it but that might not be the best solution depending on other details. Copy instead of move would probably be more reliable.

     

    And if you didn't replace the disk, then you would need to New Config and rebuild parity without it. You shouldn't keep unreliable disks in the array.

     

    Also, you must always have another copy of anything important and irreplaceable. Parity is not a substitute for backups.

     

    If you have an actual problem you want advice on,

     

    Attach diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.

  2. 3 hours ago, johyphenel said:

    add a parity drive

    If you don't have parity no need to clear or rebuild. If you want to keep any data from those small disks just New Config with the disks you want in the array, and use Unassigned Devices to copy the data from those small disks to the array. 

  3. Just now, trurl said:

    Your plan will move files to larger disks, which involves writing the new disk and updating parity, plus deleting from the source disk and updating parity.

    And you would still have to rebuild parity to get those empty disks out of the array.

  4. Probably simpler, less error-prone, and maybe not much more disk activity, to just rebuild each onto the larger disk.

     

    Your plan will move files to larger disks, which involves writing the new disk and updating parity, plus deleting from the source disk and updating parity.

     

    Plus rebuild means you will still have the original disks with their contents in case of problems, or even as backups.