Parity shows as invalid


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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. 

 

 

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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).

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