Looking for some guidence on why my parity is showing as invalid.  Been running unraid for 2 years now, no real issues.  just noticed that I got the orange triangle.  Did a manual scan last night and it has 0 errors.

 

Only thing I can think of is that I put an old drive in a while back and it failed, (no data on it) I was just adding it to the system for eventual use.  IF that's the reason, can I not simply remove the drive from the array since there's no data on it with out blowing everything up?  Never removed a drive in unraid before. 

 

 

12 minutes ago, mkyb14 said:

why my parity is showing as invalid. 

Parity isn't invalid, the triangle is warning you about disks 8 and 9 being disabled.

got it, thank you.  There's no easy way to remove that correct? 

 

Thanks again for the answer, sorry it took so long to come back around and give thanks.  New kid, new focus in the house.

4 minutes ago, mkyb14 said:

There's no easy way to remove that correct? 

You'll need to rebuild both disks (or remove them from the array with a new config, losing all data still there)

I never added any data to those disks.  I installed them, forgot about them and when SMART ran it found they were bad.  so I disabled them.

 

Doing a new config would be wiping everything?  I remember reading about it, but not fulling understanding if I was going to lose everything.  I'm guessing based on what I remember, and your comment.  That doing so would allow me to remove the disks, but the whole thing would need to rebuild from parity less the disks I removed, and would take what ever amount of time unraid does for my data set (30hrs).

Edited June 6, 20197 yr by mkyb14

Just now, mkyb14 said:

Doing a new config would be wiping everything? 

No, data will remain on the re-assigned disks, will lose just any data on the disks removed from the array.