April 15, 20251 yr Community Expert You can do an extended SMART test, or run a preclear cycle, the latter is more complete since it does a full read, write, read.
April 15, 20251 yr Author 5 hours ago, JorgeB said: You can do an extended SMART test, or run a preclear cycle, the latter is more complete since it does a full read, write, read. I'm going to opt to do the preclear but I can't seem to find it within unraid itself. Is it done through an app? I found "Unassigned Devices Preclear" so I'm guessing I add that app and use it to preclear the drive before adding it to the array, is that about right?
April 17, 20251 yr Author On 4/15/2025 at 7:16 PM, trurl said: yes Thanks, the preclear finished thankfully without issues. To rebuild the data do I just follow the original steps but for the new drive?
April 17, 20251 yr Community Expert yes https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management/#normal-replacement
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