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Should I replace this drive, and which method?

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- I have this 2TB WD drive showing lots of pending/offline - it seems likely that I should replace it?

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   169   167   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6550
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       8760
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   199   199   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       6
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   040   040   000    Old_age   Always       -       44147
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       127
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       57
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   178   178   000    Old_age   Always       -       67686
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   115   104   000    Old_age   Always       -       35
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   196   196   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   197   196   000    Old_age   Always       -       1249
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   199   197   000    Old_age   Offline      -       629
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   192   183   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2245

 

- I have a 4TB hot spare that is precleared and ready - is it better to:

  - Stop the array, reassign the new disk into the slot, and let unRAID rebuild

  - Assign the drive as a new drive, copy the files over the old fashioned way (cp -r or rsync), and then remove the old disk?

If it were me, I think I'd assign the 4TB as a new drive and use rsync with file verification to copy stuff over. That way you hopefully won't run into a surprise second drive failure while rebuilding. Downside is that you will continue to be at risk of an unanticipated second drive failure until you have the bad drive completely out of the array.

I'd let UnRAID do it's magic and rebuild the drive directly onto your new drive.

 

That gets the drive out of your system IMMEDIATELY ... and at the same time provides you with a backup of the data that's on it (since you'll still have the drive) in the event some other drive fails during the rebuild.

 

It also eliminates any possibility of making a mistake and losing data due to the user share copy issue.

 

I presume you know the process ... but just in case:

 

(a)  Disable Auto-Start of the array;

(b)  Stop the array and unassign the drive you want to rebuild;

©  Start the array so it's seen as missing; then Stop the array;

(d)  Assign the new drive [You can power down and physically swap the drive at this point if necessary; then boot back to UnRAID and do the assignment];

(e)  Start the array and let it do the rebuild.

 

 

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Thanks guys.. Rebuilding it now - so many spinning drives :P

 

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So it's rebuilding a 2TB onto a 4TB drive...  It's past 2TB now, so I'd imagine the rest of the drive is 0's... why are all drives (even 1.5TB and 2.0TB) still spun up and being used to rebuild?

I've no idea why the smaller drives are still spinning; but it does continue to actually computer the value for the new drive from the other 4TB drives in the system -- even though you KNOW the result is going to be zero.    [At least that's my assumption, having watched it continue to increment the # of reads on other drives in this process.]

 

Are the smaller (1.5TB and 2TB) drives actually being accessed -- or are they just still spinning?  [Refresh the display a couple times and see if the read counters increment]    They may have just not yet timed out -- what's your spindown setting ??

 

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