Swapping drives with mounted folders

[spork]

I've been running Drivepool and so far so good though the spare rarely used HDD [D:Storage] I have in my PC is starting to fail (not bad seeing as I've had it since 2007).

 

This drive has a Drivepool folder with all my USB HDD's mounted as folders within it mounted as two seperate pools.

 

Whats the best way to swap out the D: drive safely and not mess with Drivepool ?

 

Could I just disconnect the USB drives, remove old D: then replace it with a new D: & would I have to re-mount each USB drive as folder (they are all labelled properly so thats not an issue).

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Well, first, I'm sorry to hear about the drive failing.  But 7-8 years is a very long life for a drive! 

 

Could I just disconnect the USB drives, remove old D: then replace it with a new D: & would I have to re-mount each USB drive as folder (they are all labelled properly so thats not an issue).

Yup, pretty much exactly that. 

[spork]

Great thanks, I'm actually swapping out the drive with another of the same make (Hitachi) from 2008 I still have lying around, bunch of SATA 2 year old Seagates wiped me out money wise replacing those as 3 of the 4 developed faults, I'm never buying those again.

 

Two were okay and I replaced them with WD greens but scanner actually gave me the heads up on one the Seagates dying during a surface scan. The 08 Hitachi got a clean bill of health from scanner.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I'm sorry to hear about the failed seagates. What model(s) were they?
I know that the ST3000DM001 model has a lot of issues, but otherwise, Seagate drives are very good.

 

And I'm glad that Scanner was able to warn you about one of the drives, at least!