I just had two drives disappear at the same time. Uh-oh, what should I be doing?

[flyize]

As above. Seems odd that two drives would die at EXACTLY the same time, but of course its possible. What should be my course of action here?

[flyize]

Assuming these drives are bad, is there a way to replace them with a single 16TB? If parity does emulation, can I move the contents of those drives?

[flyize]

Wait, they're back but show unassigned. How do I figure out what slot they go in?

 

edit: Okay, I've verified that they all have the proper data on them. And I found an old diag that shows their position. But when I go to add them to the array, they show a blue icon - which makes me think Unraid thinks they're new drives.

Edited July 13, 2023 by flyize

[flyize]

I'm thinking I can just assign the drives to their respective places. Then do a New Config, and preserve all assignments. Will that work? After that, I'll certainly run a parity check.

[JorgeB]

Please post the diagnostics.

[flyize]

I know the drill. No idea why I didn't do that.

 

That said, I was able to get things working by setting a New Config. I'm now working to remove the offending drives.