I believe I have had my first hard drive failure.  I ran a parity check and now my Disk1 is disabled.  This drive had given me errors a while ago which I had attributed to a read failure and brushed off:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15103.0

 

now i appears I should have taken more notice.  My Disk1 is showing 14,981 errors.  I am using unRAID 4.7 and I have attached my syslog.

 

I have never replaced a failed drive before and I want to make sure I do it correctly.  What are the exact steps I should take?

 

*I have an extra drive that is precleared and hasn't been added to my array yet.  I was hoping to add additional storage, but now with my luck it seems it will be used as a replacement drive :-(

syslog.zip

Replace disk1 and rebuild on to the spare. Run pre-clear on the old disk1 several times and see how it does.

That is exactly what I was thinking I should do.

 

So do I just unplug the original Disk1 hard drive and replace it with my new precleared spare hard drive, and it will automatically rebuild it, or is there a button I should press?

 

Edit: I'm going to follow these instructions: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Replacing_a_Data_Drive