Removing drive without replacing


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So I have a system that holds all of the media, etc for my home. It has two 10TB drives and two 8TB drives in it. However, one of the 8TB drives has died, and I can't physically replace it at the moment (doing this remotely). The array is running fine with the failed drive emulated, but I don't trust that for the long term. 

 

So I would like to move the data off that to another drive, then rebuild the array without that one drive. Is that possible? 

 

I'm thinking something like moving the data off the drive, then removing it from the array and rebuilding. There is plenty of space on the other drives, so that isn't an issue. 

 

Any thoughts on that? I'll be able to physically replace the failed drive in a while, but would rather keep the data protected until then. 

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