General Pre-Clear Question - Two servers Involved

[Twinkie0101]

I have two Unraid servers (1 rackmount (primary), 1 XL desktop (backup).  I would like to use all trays for array drives in my primary server, but I've always kept one drive in unassigned devices (pre-cleared) to handle any drive failures.

 

I have additional capacity available in the backup server, so here's my question:

 

• Can I pre-clear a disk in my backup server and add to the primary server to free up the last tray?

[Frank1940]

42 minutes ago, Twinkie0101 said:

Can I pre-clear a disk in my backup server and add to the primary server to free up the last tray?

 

Yes.  In the back of my mind is a thought that the one of the preclears (plugin or Docker) would sometimes write the preclear signature to the wrong sector (depending on the starting sector, perhaps??).  But most of us use the preclear operation more for burning-in the drive to make sure that it will not be an 'infant mortality' victim.