I replaced a 1.5TB drive with a 3TB drive in my array (disk5). I think I made a terrible mistake by warm swapping the drives instead of shutting the server down. I have istarUSA cages so I figured I could warm swap.

 

I previously pre-cleared the 3TB drive. Stopped the array, removed drive5 (1.5TB) and replaced it with the 3TB drive. Assigned then new drive under the configuration panel and hit "start array". I expected unraid to go ahead and rebuild the data on the new drive but instead the drive has very few writes (~7000) after 8 hours and was had actually spun down. It's listed on the status page as an orange/yellow ball and status returns that the data is invalid.

 

Is there any way I can re-do this procedure to get it to rebuild all the data to the new drive?  I still have the old drive with all the data intact.  I've had to replace a failed disk before and followed this procedure with success but that time I actually shut down the server. I'm not sure if that is what caused these problems or not. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

 

I'm running 5.0-rc8a btw.

I see a rebuild button but if what I understand what I have read correctly, that will re-write parity and destroy the data that was housed on the 1.5 TB drive regarding parity. 

never replaced a disk before, but the rebuild button should start the data rebuild of your disk. (if it is the data disk, that has a yellow ball.)

the text next to the button should also say data rebuild and not parity rebuild... (maybe, you can post a screenshot?)

I think I was mistaken and read about a "restore" button not a rebuild button. Since I have the old drive with all the data on it, I feel like I am a little safer.

yep, hit that button and your data drive will be restored based on your parity.

since you have your old data drive, you are pretty save not to loose any data if something goes wrong.

I went ahead and hit the rebuild button. For some reason I was thinking when you started the array that it would rebuild it automatically. Now it says data rebuild in progress and there are a lot of writes to the new drive. Thank you!  I know this probably sounded like a rookie question but I just wanted to be safe.

 

Again, thank you!