Colin Fox
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- Oct 17, 2016
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Currently running the latest trueNas. I had a WD 3TB drive that was showing up as having problems. I bought a replacement drive - actually I bought 3 just to be save. This was a 4TB drive, as the store was out of 3TB's. Both the original drive and the new drive are WD RED drives.
When I did the swap, I didn't do anything in truenas first (so the drive remained configured and reporting errors). I powered down the machine, pulled the drive, put the new 4TB drive in it's place, and powered it back up. The original drive was in the list as "ada5", and the new drive came up as "ada5" as well, but now showing the new serial # and new size.
I've tried running SMART tests & scrubbing the pool, and nothing is helping. So either this brand new drive is also having problems, or there's a hardware issue, or there's still some step I need to take in TrueNAS.
I don't recall seeing any explicit instructions on what to do when replacing a drive - do you have to take it out of a pool first, or do any software reconfiguration, or are you normally supposed to just be able to shut it down, swap the drive and start it up, and it magically works? Did I miss something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
When I did the swap, I didn't do anything in truenas first (so the drive remained configured and reporting errors). I powered down the machine, pulled the drive, put the new 4TB drive in it's place, and powered it back up. The original drive was in the list as "ada5", and the new drive came up as "ada5" as well, but now showing the new serial # and new size.
I've tried running SMART tests & scrubbing the pool, and nothing is helping. So either this brand new drive is also having problems, or there's a hardware issue, or there's still some step I need to take in TrueNAS.
I don't recall seeing any explicit instructions on what to do when replacing a drive - do you have to take it out of a pool first, or do any software reconfiguration, or are you normally supposed to just be able to shut it down, swap the drive and start it up, and it magically works? Did I miss something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.