Hey, so one of my disks failed due to a faulty SATA connection. I'm not sure if it's the cable, controller, or disk, and honestly, I'm not concerned. Right now it's empty but not cleared and running in emulated mode. I've removed it from all of my shares so that no data will get written to it. This install doesn't have long for this world regardless, as I'm getting rid of everything in a few months when I move to a new continent and buy it again.

 

Is it best to just leave the disk in failed mode, resulting in one less parity drive for protection? Or is there a way to just remove it to get back that second parity drive without having to run a parity rebuild?

 

Unfortunately, one of the reasons I'm rebuilding it is that I bought these drives cheap, not realizing how bad SMR is. My last parity rebuild took over a week, and I'd be seriously concerned about another drive failing considering the read/write intensity of that process as most of my disks are barely used.

 

I realize that this isn't best practice - that'd be just buying a new disk and replacing it. I have multiple (cloud and local) backups of the data - I'm not concerned with data loss, I'm concerned with having to buy more disks only to get rid of them in a few months.

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