June 30, 20206 yr I'm "somewhat" concerned about this drive. Maybe just being a little to paranoid, Idk. But my questions is : I have about 4 4tb drives in my machine, one being suspect. In the next month I'll will have funds to get another as a parity drive, I'm currently running unprotected array. Should I do use the new drive as parity as I had planed, or is the one in question already too suspect and use the new one the replace it. I would have to use unbalance or something to transfer stuff around but no big deal. And if I do that, then I would either still be left with an unprotected array, or use this possibly suspect drive as a parity drive. Which I don't really want to do, but I'll only have $ for 1 additional drive in the short term. Or just do as I planed and a the new drive as parity and hope for the best one the questionable on? The suspect drive is the first one wd4000fdyz. Edit: added diagnostics. p67-diagnostics-20200630-1333.zip Edited June 30, 20206 yr by baracas
June 30, 20206 yr Community Expert Simpler to just get us the Diagnostics. Diagnostics contains SMART for all disks plus many other useful things which give a more complete understanding of your configuration and situation, all in one neat ZIP download for us. . Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post.
June 30, 20206 yr Community Expert 24 minutes ago, baracas said: Maybe just being a little to paranoid Do you have backups? Parity (which you don't have yet) is not a substitute for backups. You must always have another copy of anything important and irreplaceable.
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