Dieing Hard Drive? How to save data?

[halexh]

Attached is the downloaded smart report. When I attempt to run a extended SMART report, I get the following:

 

Kind of surprised to be honest, as this drive only has ~181 days of power on lifetime.

 

Heres the bad part:

 

I never decided to setup a parity drive. Disk 2 is identical to disk 1, and is basically empty (not sure what that 102 GB is tbh). What is the best way to move forward to insure I dont lose all my data?

WDC_WUH721414ALE6L4_9JHDH26T-20230715-0852.txt

[itimpi]

You could try copying (not moving) the data to the good drive and then use the New Config tool to remove the bad drive from the array.

 

The space currently used on disk2 looks about right for the overhead of creating the empty file system ready to receive files.

[halexh]

I just decided to turn Disk 2 into the parity drive, and left disk 1 as is. Its currently in the process of creating the parity disk (~1 day total to complete)

[itimpi]

4 minutes ago, halexh said:

I just decided to turn Disk 2 into the parity drive, and left disk 1 as is. Its currently in the process of creating the parity disk (~1 day total to complete)

You are going to want to replace disk1 anyway as any drive that fails the Extended SMART test should be replaced.

[halexh]

  

34 minutes ago, itimpi said:

You are going to want to replace disk1 anyway as any drive that fails the Extended SMART test should be replaced.

Yep, I will. I figured in the mean time it would be advantageous to add disk 2 as a parity disk though, right?

 

Wonder how I would replace disk 1 in the future though

Edited July 15, 2023 by halexh

[itimpi]

Replacing disks is covered here in the online documentation accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI or the DOCS link at the top of each forum page.