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Trying to replace a cache ssd drive thats dying in a raid1 pool of 2 500gb drives

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It keeps giving me errors when i remove one and try to start up.
If i put the samsung to place 1 it also gives me the error and i coudnt just put in the new drive and boot to force it to rebuild on the new drive.

What is the best way to replace the dying drive?

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Solved by JorgeB

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Cache cfg is in single mode, post the output from btrfs fi show

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27 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Cache cfg is in single mode, post the output from btrfs fi show

unraid:~# btrfs fi show

Label: none uuid: 5e5ff1b9-820c-4d95-877f-60b4fafb86de

Total devices 2 FS bytes used 209.35GiB

devid 1 size 476.94GiB used 234.05GiB path /dev/sdc1

devid 2 size 465.76GiB used 228.03GiB path /dev/sdb1

Label: none uuid: b46efa3b-1e2e-4d53-a083-5161627f1866

Total devices 1 FS bytes used 54.98GiB

devid 1 size 150.00GiB used 76.02GiB path /dev/loop2

Label: none uuid: 35470472-fff9-46fd-b563-4b0558caae6b

Total devices 1 FS bytes used 1.14MiB

devid 1 size 1.00GiB used 126.38MiB path /dev/loop3

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The pool has some single profile chunks, see if you can convert all to raid1:

If you can still start the array with the old device, assign it back; if not, reimport the pool with sdc and sdb

on main click on the first device for that pool and then "remove pool"

back on main, create a new pool with the same name and 2 slots

assign the two existing pool devices; leave the filesystem set to auto

start the array to import the pool

Then click the first pool device and balance the pool to RAID1. Post new diags when done or if there are errors during the balance.

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Ok thank you! Will try this out.
Tuesday im near the machine again and then im gonna do that.
Making full backup of cache now to array.

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You should disable Docker and VM Manager until you get cache working again.

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On 5/22/2026 at 5:42 PM, JorgeB said:

The pool has some single profile chunks, see if you can convert all to raid1:

If you can still start the array with the old device, assign it back; if not, reimport the pool with sdc and sdb

on main click on the first device for that pool and then "remove pool"

back on main, create a new pool with the same name and 2 slots

assign the two existing pool devices; leave the filesystem set to auto

start the array to import the pool

Then click the first pool device and balance the pool to RAID1. Post new diags when done or if there are errors during the balance.

Just did this. Here are my diagnostics.
myunraid-diagnostics-20260527-1620.zip

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The pool is raid1 only now, you should be able to replace a device.

  • 2 weeks later...
  • Author

It worked and i changed both drives with no issues.
Thank you very much!

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