Replacing a disk with "Reallocated sector count" and "Reported uncorrect" SMART errors


jj_uk

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I have a data disk that is showing smart errors. The disk is about 12 months old, and annoyingly a 3-cycle preclear didn't show any errors, but that's life. The drive was ripped from a USB backup box so it has no warranty. Bye bye cash.

 

My server is running low on storage, so I've bought two 20TB drives (usb backup drives, currently connected via usb and preclearing 3x cycles).

 

All data disks and the parity disk are currently 8TB.

 

To insert the 20T disks, I'll also need to replace the cache drive as it must be >= the largest data disk.

Would I be OK swapping out the parity drive with a 20T, rebuilding the array then swapping the failing drive with the old parity drive? 

 

Or should I do a the parity swap procedure instead ? (https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure)

 

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I followed the procedure 'exactly' to perform the parity swap. The old parity drive was 8T, the new parity drive is 20T. I have the following drives (image below) :

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The parity swap process completed successfully.

 

The last part of the instructions states that running a parity check is optional. So I chose to run it.

 

There are literally millions of sync errors being corrected by the parity check!  - What's going on ?!

The parity check position is past 8T (my largest data drive). Is this simply the parity drive being reset to a known state and nothing to worry about? The new parity drive was precleared before use. Should I be worried??

 

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The process of changing the parity drive to a 20T drive, and replacing a faulty disk has now completed.

 

I've now replaced another small data disk with a 20T disk.  As I now have loads of free space on the server, I'd like to remove a disk. The process to remove a drive is to reset the config, choosing to preserve assignments, changing the disk to be removed to 'unassigned' then starting the array (in maintenance mode, for speed).

 

As a disk has been removed, what happens here? Does Unraid try recreate the removed disk's data onto the remaining disks?  In my case, there will definitely be enough space for this to happen, but what happens if there's not enough space? What happens to the share settings if they're set to use, or exclude that disk?

 

This isn't covered in the FAQ. https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Removing_data_disk.28s.29

 

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On 11/22/2022 at 4:33 PM, jj_uk said:

The drive was ripped from a USB backup box so it has no warranty. Bye bye cash.

 

I would suggest that you go to the manufacturer's website and check the drive's serial number for the drive's warranty status.  (I seem to recall hearing that many of those drives do have a warranty and that an RMA will be issued.)

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On 12/12/2022 at 10:25 PM, itimpi said:

Unraid will not move data.   It is up to you to manually put the data onto the other drives or perhaps use the unBalsnce plugin.

 

So the data is just lost?  ok, i'm moving the data off the drive i'd like to remove using the Dynamix File Manager plugin. I'll take a look at unBalance.

 

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40 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

IF that disk (that is to be removed) is still in the parity-protected array, make sure that you are copying disk-to-disk!  A copy operation between a disk (in the array) and a User Share can result in data loss.  Stated again, disk-to-Share (or Share-to-disk) can easily result in a data loss...

 

It's copying from

/mnt/disk2/MediaServer

to 

/mnt/disk1/MediaServer

 

So that's disk to disk, right?

 

 

/mnt/user/MediaServer   <-- is that a user share?

 

 

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