So I had extremely bad luck the past couple of months - 6 drives died in as many as 8 weeks. I have bought 6 new drives and gonna add them to the pool. But what I would also like to do, is to move or swap places of some of the already existing drives. I mean I have 4 backplanes with 16 drive slots each connected to my sever (4x Rackable SE3016 connected via 4x SAS SFF-8088 cables to LSI 9201-16e HBA). Basically, I want to "rearrange" the drives in the backplanes, instead of putting the new drives in the "holes" where the dead drives were, I would reshuffle the drives and connect the new drives in the same backplane. It's probably a little bit OCD, but I like the drives to be "sorted", then it's easier to keep track of all of them. It gets confusing sometimes when you got a shitload of drives.
I figured I'd ask before doing. I use Stablebit's both Scanner and Drivepool. I have some folders duplicated (2x).
Will there be problems if I'll shuffle the drives around in the backplanes? I mean will Drivepool and Scanner be ok with this?
Will Drivepool see and restore the pool auto-magically?
Will Scanner have problems recognizing and retaining the scanned status if the drives have moved? I mean Scanner just re-scanned most of the drives this week.
Should I do it in 2 stages? I mean, 1st reshuffle the old drives, start windows and let the DP and Scanner do it's thing. And only then shutdown and connect the new drives? To minimize confusion, so to speak...
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So I had extremely bad luck the past couple of months - 6 drives died in as many as 8 weeks. I have bought 6 new drives and gonna add them to the pool. But what I would also like to do, is to move or swap places of some of the already existing drives. I mean I have 4 backplanes with 16 drive slots each connected to my sever (4x Rackable SE3016 connected via 4x SAS SFF-8088 cables to LSI 9201-16e HBA). Basically, I want to "rearrange" the drives in the backplanes, instead of putting the new drives in the "holes" where the dead drives were, I would reshuffle the drives and connect the new drives in the same backplane. It's probably a little bit OCD, but I like the drives to be "sorted", then it's easier to keep track of all of them. It gets confusing sometimes when you got a shitload of drives.
I figured I'd ask before doing. I use Stablebit's both Scanner and Drivepool. I have some folders duplicated (2x).
Thanks in advance for any help.
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