I've been running the original Drivepool WHS2011 plugin for a few years now. There are 5 disks in my pool, and things have generally been fine... up until now.
Three drives in the pool (all Seagates!) have been reporting SMART problems recently. I've three new (non-Seagates!) ready to replace them, but one of the drives has now gone into a SMART unhealthy state (I also run Scanner). The pool now won't come up properly, and files are inaccessible. I'm trying to start a 'replace drive' operation on the unhealthy disk, but that's proving problematic. All of the total amounts for the various folders are missing in the DrivePool tab, but it does show 5 disks in the pool. Pool status is stuck at 'measuring 0.1%.
I do have backups - thankfully, but what's the best course of action? I can just pull the unhealthy drive, but that's not going to help with the pool state. I'm not sure if there's any way to do this 'cleanly'. Absolute worst case, I'm going to have the blitz the pool, add the new disks, recreate and restore, but that sounds pretty extreme.
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