January 4, 201610 yr Running 6.0.1 I'm not sure how long it has been this way, but tonight I noticed that my parity drive is not being detected. (attached screenshots) I checked the cabling, dusted, etc. - to no avail. I collected reports, and the SMART report for the parity drive looks faulty (attached). So, I guess this means that I should buy a new parity drive - easy enough. Am I assessing this correctly? Should I get the new parity drive (2TB or larger), install it, and then it will be available to choose as the parity drive? I've replaced a faculty array drive - but never a parity drive. I don't want to screw it up.... Thanks for the suggestions and help.
January 5, 201610 yr Author I'm bumping this up.... I ordered a new 3TB drive to replace the (likely) dead 1TB parity drive. This will then give me the flexibility of growing the other drives in the array. My plan - unless I hear otherwise here - is to swap in the new 3TB drive, assign it to parity and power up the array. I'm assuming that the parity drive will then be rebuilt. I've looked for an answer to this specific question, and I can't find something that matches it exactly. But I think it will work. Any other thoughts? Thanks.
January 5, 201610 yr Community Expert My plan - unless I hear otherwise here - is to swap in the new 3TB drive, assign it to parity and power up the array. I'm assuming that the parity drive will then be rebuilt. Correct, assign new disk to parity slot, start array to begin parity sync.
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