I lost 2 750GB disks in my array and I only have 2 500GB disks to replace them with right now.  If I simply pull the 750's and replace them with the 500's will I lose all my data or just the data on the 2 drives that failed?  I don't mind losing the 2 drives worth of data but I'd rather not lose everything in the array if I can avoid it.  Thanks.

I lost 2 750GB disks in my array and I only have 2 500GB disks to replace them with right now.  If I simply pull the 750's and replace them with the 500's will I lose all my data or just the data on the 2 drives that failed?  I don't mind losing the 2 drives worth of data but I'd rather not lose everything in the array if I can avoid it.  Thanks.

you would lose just the data on the two failed drives.

Thanks Joe.  I can still read one of the drives in Windows using YAReG so I should be able to copy off the data from one of the drives.  I'd be very happy to get what's left back up and running again.

Thanks Joe.  I can still read one of the drives in Windows using YAReG so I should be able to copy off the data from one of the drives.  I'd be very happy to get what's left back up and running again.

If you can still read it in windows I do not see why you can't read it in unRAID.

 

If you can read one, you can re-construct the other from the remaining drives/parity...

 

Perhaps you can fill me in.

Joe - here is my original post about the drives.  There is a screen shot of what my UNRAID screen looks like.  I posted hdparm and smartctl's for both disk9 and 11.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12957.0

Joe - here is my original post about the drives.  There is a screen shot of what my UNRAID screen looks like.  I posted hdparm and smartctl's for both disk9 and 11.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12957.0

I see the drive reporting a size of zero bytes to the OS.  I seem to remember that was a firmware bug on the drive that did that.  I guess the driver in windows is not looking at that and lets you access it anyway.

 

Did you flash the new firmware on that drive?

 

Joe L.

 

FYI, replace the drives and type initconfig at the command line. Answer Yes. Your array will be working again.

 

Peter

Joe - the seagate tool did not work for either drive.  No firmware was downloaded or updated.  I'm going to replace Disk11 now and see how that goes.

Replaced Disk11 with a 500GB drive, typed initconfig at the prompt.  Formatted the new Disk11 from the console, Disk9 went back to green.  Parity check is now running.  Crossing my fingers but I plan on replacing all the 7200rpm drives at some point in the near future as budget allows.  Disk9's replacement will be a priority.  So far it looks like a few of my most recent Blu-ray rips are missing.  I don't think too many are gone but I'll have to check in mymovies database.  Nothing that can't be replaced.  Thanks for the help guys.