Hi All

I'm hoping to get some reassurance before making any moves.

I'm currently in a situation most likely caused by a fake HBA Card which requires me to rebuild a drive

all drives are now connected via motherboard sata ports.

when trying to rebuild drive 3 the whole system hangs , cant connect via GUI and cant ping system.

Looking at diagnostics it seems the 'cache drive' is causing this, it is an old drive so could be the reason (drive is just for downloads)

I'm trying to remove this drive so that i can then rebuild the array and avoid the hanging. but simply unassigning it and then trying to start the array shows the following error message:

Wrong Pool State

cache - too many wrong or missing devices

Chat GPT thinks i should unassign the disk and then do a new config and retain all drives but the warning around that say that i wont be able to rebuild a drive after doing that, so I'm naturally anxious.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks

Zass

Edited October 6, 2025Oct 6 by Zass

Do NOT use New Config because as the warning said you could then not rebuild the array drive.

click on the ‘cache’ pool on the Main tab and select the option to Remove Pool. You should then be able to start the array to begin the rebuild.