Hi, I am a fairly recent DrivePool user having migrated from FlexRAID. I have a 10TB media server with 4x3TB data drives and 1x3TB parity drive. At the moment I'm not using any RAID functionality until I've understood DrivePool properly and then my plan is to setup SnapRAID (unless anyone has a better suggestion). So as it stands at the moment I just have the 4x3TB data drives pooled and am not using the parity drive at the moment. I also run HD Sentinel Professional to monitor the drives and inform me of any issues etc.
Anyway, the reason for my post. HD Sentinel has informed me that one of my data drives is starting to go bad and I want to swap it out. I have gone through the DrivePool manual but it only seems to mention removing a drive from the pool or adding a new drive to the pool but I couldn't find anything specific to replacing a bad drive so I wanted to ask for some clarification here.
The data on the failing drive is still accessible so I am currently copying all the data from the PoolPart.xxxx folder on the failing drive to a new 3TB drive.
I can see 2 possible options:
1.) Should I copy the PoolPart.xxx folder itself and then just physically remove the old drive and fit the new one in it's place and then assume DrivePool will see the same PoolPart.xxxx folder and just carry on as before.
2.) Should I copy just the contents of the PoolPart.xxxx folder to the new drive and then in the DrivePool GUI remove the failing drive from the pool, swap the drives over and then add the new drive to the pool. I assume then DrivePool will create a new PoolPart.xxxx folder on the new drive which I can then move the copied data into.
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RussellS
Hi, I am a fairly recent DrivePool user having migrated from FlexRAID. I have a 10TB media server with 4x3TB data drives and 1x3TB parity drive. At the moment I'm not using any RAID functionality until I've understood DrivePool properly and then my plan is to setup SnapRAID (unless anyone has a better suggestion). So as it stands at the moment I just have the 4x3TB data drives pooled and am not using the parity drive at the moment. I also run HD Sentinel Professional to monitor the drives and inform me of any issues etc.
Anyway, the reason for my post. HD Sentinel has informed me that one of my data drives is starting to go bad and I want to swap it out. I have gone through the DrivePool manual but it only seems to mention removing a drive from the pool or adding a new drive to the pool but I couldn't find anything specific to replacing a bad drive so I wanted to ask for some clarification here.
The data on the failing drive is still accessible so I am currently copying all the data from the PoolPart.xxxx folder on the failing drive to a new 3TB drive.
I can see 2 possible options:
1.) Should I copy the PoolPart.xxx folder itself and then just physically remove the old drive and fit the new one in it's place and then assume DrivePool will see the same PoolPart.xxxx folder and just carry on as before.
2.) Should I copy just the contents of the PoolPart.xxxx folder to the new drive and then in the DrivePool GUI remove the failing drive from the pool, swap the drives over and then add the new drive to the pool. I assume then DrivePool will create a new PoolPart.xxxx folder on the new drive which I can then move the copied data into.
...or is there another option that I'm missing.
Thanks for any help.
Russell
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