I have an N54L running 4x 2TB WD Greens which are a few yrs old now - they previously sat in my Netgear ReadyNAS and had no issues.
The 4 drives are configured as one big drive pool - boot is from a 250GB disk on it's own.
Server OS is WHS 2011
One of the2TB drives has started logging 'unstable sectors' under S.M.A.R.T and reported back via StableBit Scanner as I got the automated email. It's only got a count of 19 at the moment, but in order to protect myself I'm planning on swapping this disk out to a 3TB WD Red unit. This will be part of a rolling migration as and when I can afford to buy new drives.
I know that I can drop the suspect disk out of the drivepool and swap it out when I power down the N54L. This may take some time to migrate the data into the remaining drives.
I'm also wondering if I should take this opportunity to upgrade to the v2 of Drivepool?
If so what would be the recommended procedure (assuming I can leave the data on the remaining 2TB disks for the process!)
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I have an N54L running 4x 2TB WD Greens which are a few yrs old now - they previously sat in my Netgear ReadyNAS and had no issues.
The 4 drives are configured as one big drive pool - boot is from a 250GB disk on it's own.
Server OS is WHS 2011
One of the2TB drives has started logging 'unstable sectors' under S.M.A.R.T and reported back via StableBit Scanner as I got the automated email. It's only got a count of 19 at the moment, but in order to protect myself I'm planning on swapping this disk out to a 3TB WD Red unit. This will be part of a rolling migration as and when I can afford to buy new drives.
I know that I can drop the suspect disk out of the drivepool and swap it out when I power down the N54L. This may take some time to migrate the data into the remaining drives.
I'm also wondering if I should take this opportunity to upgrade to the v2 of Drivepool?
If so what would be the recommended procedure (assuming I can leave the data on the remaining 2TB disks for the process!)
Thanks in advance!
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