Simulating Failure

[ke5in]

Hi all,

I just built my FreeNAS this week . . . been reading and learning a lot. I'm currently doing a burn in and soon I want to simulate failed devices. I just want to practice and document this for a time when I will need to do it for real.

My setup is simple: an SSD boot drive and two 8TB mirrored drives.

For the boot device, I was thinking to just go in, backup my config, reformat/reinstall the SSD and then restore the config. Afterwards verify I can still access my all my data in the Datasets/Shares. (my data is just dummy data right now)

For the mirrored drives, I was thinking to just take one out reformat it in another computer. Pop in, startup and see what happens, take it offline, "replace" and then resilver.

Do I even need to reformat it? Is above this too naive? Is there a better way to get experience?

Also, i was thinking to install the previous version of freeNAS so I could do an upgrade and then a rollback to see how that goes. Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks!

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MB: X10SDV-4C-TLN2F
RAM: 16GB
Boot device: cheap 110GB SSD
2x HDDs: WD Red 8TB (WD80EFAX)