A couple of questions about what happens and what should happen (vs. what I'm seeing) when you replace a drive and have it rebuilt.

So I am replacing a green drive that has been on for some 37,000 hours 1TB with a new 2TB drive (both to prevent a failure and add space to my unraid).

 

I shutdown properly, swapped the drives, brought unraid back up, assigned new disk and set to rebuilding - all we well.  Things I'm seeing now.

 

1. The first 15min or so rebuild went along at only 30MB/s - then sped up to 90MB/s - why?

 

2. Now, although the array says its online, none of my shares are accessible - only the cache drive is accessible.  Is this normal?

 

Edit: forgot to add I'm using R5b14

The shares should be accessible during a rebuild. Let the rebuild complete.

had to reboot after the rebuild for my shares to come back online.  I have Sickbeard auto start on boot, perhaps it caused an issue with the shares when I had the replacement drive in... strange though.