Djinn Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 With messages like this should I probably just not use this disk in my array? I have 3 of these from old work computers and just curious if I am just begging for trouble. Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Don't use those. You'd need them too read 100% correctly to rebuild the array, should you ever need to. There's a reason why it's a Pre-Fail notice lol, it's failing. Quote Link to comment
Djinn Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 Sorta what I thought guess ill pull and throw them out Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 You could try an extended test and see if it passes Quote Link to comment
Djinn Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 I did preclear them yesterday and they seemed to pass that test is what you are suggesting something else? Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) No, it's under the SMART stats for the drive. It will test the entire drive and if it can read the entire drive successfully then it will report PASS, otherwise it will report a failure and you'll know to toss it. Edited October 20, 2020 by civic95man Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 But it will take a long time to complete (several hours) Quote Link to comment
Djinn Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 So if i do take them out it looks like they have all had some amount of data written to them how do I move that to the other drives so i can pull these safely? Quote Link to comment
civic95man Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I like the unbalance plugin. it lets you move data from one drive to another Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 After emptying the drives, you will have to New Config without them and rebuild parity. I don't recommend using older and/or smaller disks in the array just because you happen to have them. Each additional disk is an additional point of failure, requires more ports, more power, and at some point, more Unraid license. All bits of all disks must be reliably read to reliably rebuild a missing disk. Older and/or smaller disks don't perform as well as larger newer disks. Add drives when you need additional capacity, not just because you have some disks laying around. Quote Link to comment
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