2 pools, 1 in degraded state.

[thedirtmerchant]

When I built my server, I had a couple extra old drives from a previous build.
Decided to use them as a separate pool "Dozer".
Main pool "Tank" has 6 drives.
One of the drives in Dozer won't return SMART anything and the pool is in a degraded state.
I don't have anything on this pool except a couple test files...and I'm wondering if I can simply
leave it in a degraded state and this will have no affect on the other pool? Just asking out of curiosity,
not because I'm going to actually leave it as-is.

And this just happened today, but...can I simply remove the degraded pool?
I haven't had a chance to search around on what to do and how to do it.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to replace the drive and bring it back up...don't want to use my cold spare
and don't want to spend the money to buy a new drive either...at least not for now. What should i do? Can I shut Dozer down temporarily (3-6 months)?
And bring it back up whenever I want?

 

[thedirtmerchant]

When I built my server, I had a couple extra old drives from a previous build.
Decided to use them as a separate pool "Dozer".
Main pool "Tank" has 6 drives.
One of the drives in Dozer won't return SMART anything and the pool is in a degraded state.
I don't have anything on this pool except a couple test files...and I'm wondering if I can simply
leave it in a degraded state and this will have no affect on the other pool? Just asking out of curiosity,
not because I'm going to actually leave it as-is.

And this just happened today, but...can I simply remove the degraded pool?
I haven't had a chance to search around on what to do and how to do it.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to replace the drive and bring it back up...don't want to use my cold spare
and don't want to spend the money to buy a new drive either...at least not for now. What should i do? Can I shut Dozer down temporarily (3-6 months)?
And bring it back up whenever I want?

I can't even remember what the settings were...but i believe I have Dozer set as a 2 drive mirror?

 

[sretalla]

I can't even remember what the settings were...but i believe I have Dozer set as a 2 drive mirror?

You can check that with zpool status at the CLI

can I simply remove the degraded pool?

Yes

I can simply leave it in a degraded state and this will have no affect on the other pool?

Yes

Can I shut Dozer down temporarily (3-6 months)?

Export the pool and remove the disks... yes.

9. Storage — FreeNAS®11.2-U7 User Guide Table of Contents

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And bring it back up whenever I want?

Re-insert disks and import the pool, yes.

9. Storage — FreeNAS®11.2-U7 User Guide Table of Contents

www.ixsystems.com

I haven't had a chance to search around on what to do and how to do it.

(Remove/destroy the pool)
Same as exporting, but you select to destroy the data.

9. Storage — FreeNAS®11.2-U7 User Guide Table of Contents

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[thedirtmerchant]

OK...Shady's back. Back again. A bit over 6 months have passed...and now it's time to take care of my degraded pool.
I have purchased a new HDD to replace the failed drive.

Now what?
I have previously exported the pool, but left the disk physically in the case.
What do I do now...?
Put in the new drive and let it resilver?
Run the HDD through all the Burn-in processes, then resilver?


Also, a separate question...I've been gone for a while. Do I simply upgrade to TrueNAS? Or are there some other steps I'll need to do first before upgrading? Is it similar to True Blood?

 

[thedirtmerchant]

I'm trying to find the Burn-in process that I used a couple years ago, but can't seem to find the document.

Hard Drive Burn-In Testing - Discussion Thread

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Where is this? I'm having trouble finding it for some reason...

 

[thedirtmerchant]

Is this the latest...
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/hard-drive-burn-in-testing.92/