July 2, 20251 yr I'm working to recover my array and my whole setup after a corrupted boot drive. Don't shame me, lesson learned!I had 3 drives and a pool drive. It was obvious that my SSD was the pool drive, and I added all drives as data drives to look for the unmountable drive. Interestingly, I have 2 8TB drives and a 3TB drive. My system has been on autopilot so long I really have no idea how things were arranged, but I assigned everything as a data drive to see what was mountable. The 3TB came back as non-mountable, but it can't be the parity drive because it's too small. Both 8TB appeared to mount and all my shares show up on both drives.Is it correct to assume that I essentially had a mirrored setup and one of the 8TB was data, and one was parity, so now they basically are mirrored and I can assign either as data and parity?My only guess is that the 3TB drive was something I shucked as an experiment,.but never actually assigned it.Bottom line, am I safe to assign either 8TB disk as data and the other as parity? I'm treating the 3TB as trash. Or am I better off just buying a 16GB and assigning that as a new parity drive, but then will it just be backing up 2 drives that are already mirrors of eachother?
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