October 31, 20232 yr Hi all, So I've run my array with two hdd (3 &4 tb) with no parity for long but not long enough so it cause significant damage. I bought 4 6tb this summer. Installed it, added parity and I felt safe. A drive disabled itself this week after having an error and the other drive have 128 at the moment. I saw that the content was being emulated not sure about the old drives status right now. I removed it and readded it but I doubt this will fix anything (currently rebuilding). What should I do right now ? Is it possible ton simply transfer everything off the old disks on the new ones ? Let me know. Thanks
October 31, 20232 yr Community Expert A better approach would have been to add and build parity, then use that to rebuild disks 1 and 2 to new disks one at a time. Disk2 has some pending sectors. Looks like your motherboard SATA ports are using IDE mode. You should change those to AHCI in the BIOS. Let disk1 rebuild complete then we can consider what to do next.
October 31, 20232 yr Author It just finished. Could it be because I use a PIKE card on my ASUS motherboard to have 6gbps on some of my sata ports ? What do you want me to do next ?
November 1, 20232 yr Community Expert Disk1 was rebuilt successfully, without any errors, previous issues with disk1 look more lake a power/connection issue.
November 1, 20232 yr Community Expert 21 hours ago, trurl said: Disk2 has some pending sectors. Do you have another disk you could rebuild disk2 onto?
November 1, 20232 yr Author I don't at the moment. I could probably buy an other one but not short term.
November 1, 20232 yr Community Expert The simple method would be to copy its data to other disks, New Config without it then rebuild parity. Or you could New Config/ Rebuild parity without it, then copy its data as an Unassigned Device.
November 2, 20232 yr Community Expert Since disk1 was rebuilt successfully disk2 is OK for now, and the pending sectors are false positives, still, it may not be a bad idea to replace/remove it when possible.
November 2, 20232 yr Author Thanks for the help. I think I will buy new drives to replace them just not right now.
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