Maticks Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 I remember reading somewhere that if you remove all the data from a Data Drive and remove it from the array. you don't need to rebuild the array. How do you do that? can you do that? my disk9 has failed so i've pulled all the Data off it and want to remove it from the array as a Data Drive i don't want to replace it. Upgrading to 8TB drives so collapsing how many disks are in my array. I just can't work out how to pull the disk without a rebuild being needed? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 46 minutes ago, Maticks said: I remember reading somewhere that if you remove all the data from a Data Drive and remove it from the array. you don't need to rebuild the array. Close, but not correct. You have to write zeros to the entire capacity of the drive, which is WAY more time consuming. It's faster to rebuild parity. 1 Quote Link to comment
Docshaker Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 22 hours ago, Maticks said: I remember reading somewhere that if you remove all the data from a Data Drive and remove it from the array. you don't need to rebuild the array. This only works on good drives from the manuals said, unless someone found a way around that. **This method can only be used if the drive to be removed is a good drive that is completely empty, is mounted and can be completely cleared without errors occurring** https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Removing_data_disk.28s.29 Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 54 minutes ago, Docshaker said: This only works on good drives from the manuals said, unless someone found a way around that. Technically it can be used on an emulated drive, but there is no benefit and significant unprotected time penalty to zeroing an emulated drive, as it would be quicker to either rebuild to a new drive if there is needed data on the emulated drive or rebuilding parity if there is no need to save the emulated slot data. Your first priority with a failed drive should be to get back to a protected state ASAP. Quote Link to comment
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