March 5, 20251 yr Community Expert No issues for now, and emulated disk11 is mounting, so you just need to replace it, assuming the old disk is still MIA after checking/swapping cables.
March 5, 20251 yr Author So basically buy a new disk and put that in place? I attached disk 11 at a new spot and still nothing. Basically a new disk will rebuild everything that was on disk 11?
March 5, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, bm83 said: Basically a new disk will rebuild everything that was on disk 11? If you have a disk being emulated, then rebuilding its contents onto a replacement physical disk will end up with the physical disk containing exactly what you can see on the emulated disk.
March 5, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, bm83 said: Any risk running the server till I buy a new drive? The risk is that if another drive fails so you have more failed drives than parity drives then all the data on the failed drives is lost. if no further drives fail then the system continues running as normal with the already failed drive being emulated.
March 5, 20251 yr Author 7 minutes ago, itimpi said: The risk is that if another drive fails so you have more failed drives than parity drives then all the data on the failed drives is lost. if no further drives fail then the system continues running as normal with the already failed drive being emulated. Thank you for that!
March 5, 20251 yr Author One more question. Right now disk 11 is "unassigned". Will I just be able to assign a new drive to it and have that work?
March 5, 20251 yr Community Expert 2 minutes ago, bm83 said: One more question. Right now disk 11 is "unassigned". Will I just be able to assign a new drive to it and have that work? Yes as long as it is at least as large as the disk it is replacing and not larger than the smallest parity drive. There is the parity swap procedure for the special case of upgrading a parity drive to a larger size and using the old parity drive to replace the failed drive.
March 5, 20251 yr Author 1 hour ago, itimpi said: Yes as long as it is at least as large as the disk it is replacing and not larger than the smallest parity drive. There is the parity swap procedure for the special case of upgrading a parity drive to a larger size and using the old parity drive to replace the failed drive. Thank you for that.
March 5, 20251 yr Community Expert Your parity is already 14TB, and the disk you are replacing was only 5TB. So you could go as large as 14TB for the replacement without requiring the additional complications of the parity swap procedure.
March 7, 20251 yr Author That's what I'm going to do. Ordered a Seagate Exos X18 14TB drive from serverpartdeals. Going to plug that one in.
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