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Is it possible to take a set (4) of drives out of a 3U and just put them in an empty 1U? Considering the 3U had more than 4 drives to begin with.
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Not quite.Incorrect info... Read this for the gospel:
Hot spare clarification
I had some weirdness with my new 3U that I am not sure about. Somehow everything I thought I knew might be wrong! The server came with 11 x 1tb drives. One drive was flashing indicating that is was a hot spare. The server page indicates the capacity was 8948 GB. I have read here somewhere that...www.kscapeowners.com
The hot spare (the one that the blue light blinks on and off) never gets written to until another drive fails. Until that happens it is 'blank' in the same sense as a new spare drive that you just purchased from K. You can remove it out of a 3U and put it in another server (per the rules of adding drives or replacing failed drives) all day long. The 3U will complain that it is missing a hot spare.
But as @KTDJ mentioned and @J.Green writes in the linked post... If the hot spare is removed and one of the other drives in the 3U has never had data written to it, the file system will shrink and the drive that has never been written to will become the hot spare (and start blinking). You can repeat this process of removing the hot spare until the 3U complains that it is missing a hot spare. All of the drives removed under these circumstances are usable as spare drives.
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