March 1, 20197 yr Ok, the story so far: Bought a new server (HP DL380 G8) and moved USB and disks to new chassis. Everything working fine. Added a new larger 6Tb disk as 2nd parity with plan to replace parity 1 (3Tb) with another 6Tb disk once check complete. During the check, Disk 2 (3Tb) has 2 read errors and dropped out of the array. I have other 6Tb disks spare and was going to replace the smaller 2Tb disks once parity was sorted, some of these have been pre-cleared, some not. Now, I cannot add a 6Tb disk to the array as parity 1 is only 3Tb and I didn't want to proceed any further without seeking advice. What are my next best options to get the disk back online and preserve parity? tower-diagnostics-20190301-1827.zip
March 1, 20197 yr Community Expert You can use the parity swap procedure, can't say anything about the disabled disk's health since you're using a RAID controller and there's no SMART info.
March 1, 20197 yr Author Thanks for the prompt reply as always johnnie.black. I didn't want to proceed any further in case I made matters worse! I'll move the disk into the old server and see what I can find from SMART. Edited March 1, 20197 yr by jbflix Spelling
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