OK, first problem I have really encountered with DrivePool. Last night I had a 5TB HDD start to fail, hard. I got a notice from my drive monitoring program that the HDD's health was not good. So I went into the DrivePool GUI and selected to remove the failing HDD. Unfortunately, the HDD is not removing itself normally and I get an error "Error Removing Drive" with the Error Details "The system cannot find the path specified." At that point, DrivePool goes into a full pool Measuring task on all pool drives, which on my 70TB DrivePool takes ~2 hours.
I let DrivePool remeasure everything overnight, and this morning I tried once again to remove the failing drive from the DrivePool GUI. Again, after a few minutes, the failing drive errored out and DrivePool is once again measuring all drives on my 70TB pool - which will take another ~2 hours to complete.
Is there a better way to remove a failing drive from DrivePool? When I select remove the drive, there is a Remove Options checkbox that comes up and none of the 3 options are selected by default. Should I check any/all of those options and if so which boxes should I select. After my DrivePool has remeasured all the drives, I am planning on selecting the "Force damaged drive removal (unreadable files will be left on the disk)" option, but the other 2 options do not really seem to address my current problem.
Also, can I attempt another drive removal when DrivePool is "Measuring" the drives, or should I wait until the Measuring task (~2 hours) is complete? Thanks for any help.
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OK, first problem I have really encountered with DrivePool. Last night I had a 5TB HDD start to fail, hard. I got a notice from my drive monitoring program that the HDD's health was not good. So I went into the DrivePool GUI and selected to remove the failing HDD. Unfortunately, the HDD is not removing itself normally and I get an error "Error Removing Drive" with the Error Details "The system cannot find the path specified." At that point, DrivePool goes into a full pool Measuring task on all pool drives, which on my 70TB DrivePool takes ~2 hours.
I let DrivePool remeasure everything overnight, and this morning I tried once again to remove the failing drive from the DrivePool GUI. Again, after a few minutes, the failing drive errored out and DrivePool is once again measuring all drives on my 70TB pool - which will take another ~2 hours to complete.
Is there a better way to remove a failing drive from DrivePool? When I select remove the drive, there is a Remove Options checkbox that comes up and none of the 3 options are selected by default. Should I check any/all of those options and if so which boxes should I select. After my DrivePool has remeasured all the drives, I am planning on selecting the "Force damaged drive removal (unreadable files will be left on the disk)" option, but the other 2 options do not really seem to address my current problem.
Also, can I attempt another drive removal when DrivePool is "Measuring" the drives, or should I wait until the Measuring task (~2 hours) is complete? Thanks for any help.
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