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What is the most updated procedure to replace a failed drive on 2012R2 Storage Spaces ?
I have 4 x 1TB Storage Spaces (2-way mirror, hot-swappable, no more spare swappable slot available) on a 2012R2 server. One of the hard drives appears to be failed in Smart alert even the drive still shows healthy on the OS. After already identified the potentially failed drive and felt ready to replace the failed drive, I became so confused about how to while reading through articles on the net. Some said I need to insert a new drive in before doing anything but I don't have any empty slot available. Can you shed some light on this please?
Also, I understand in Win10, there is a "Prepare for removal"/"Ready to remove" option to remove a drive from an SS without the need of issuing any PS commands. Thus, I'm wondering if I can just select "Remove" the failed physical drive from Storage Pools/Physical Disks list on GUI and then physically replace the failed with a good one. Then add that new good drive back to the pool. Will that work?
Also, I understand in Win10, there is a "Prepare for removal"/"Ready to remove" option to remove a drive from an SS without the need of issuing any PS commands. Thus, I'm wondering if I can just select "Remove" the failed physical drive from Storage Pools/Physical Disks list on GUI and then physically replace the failed with a good one. Then add that new good drive back to the pool. Will that work?
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Thanks David.
But the problem is, we don't have any spare drive bay/slot available. How to add a new drive in before removing/retiring the failed drive?
But the problem is, we don't have any spare drive bay/slot available. How to add a new drive in before removing/retiring the failed drive?
replace the drive (use the toggle drive light if available) to show you the failed drive, now add the replaced drive to SS you will see failed communication on the drive you replaced and remove that drive. from SS
This is the process we used to replace failed drives in full enclosures as well as ones with spare slots. It's tried and true here.
If there's enough free space in the Pool a parallel rebuild should have been triggered by the drive failing. Do the Virtual Disks and/or Pool show as healthy?
DataON has a good guide here.
DataON has a good guide here.
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn782852(v%3Dws.11)