My 3U server has 12 1tb drives and a 2tb (hot spare) drive, about a year ago I planned to upgrade my HDD's. Using the force fail method I replace one 1tb drive with a 6tb drive. For some reason I kept the old 1tb drive around. Recently a 1tb drive failed, a rebuild was done on drive 13, (not the hot spare). I then replaced the failed drive with the old drive I removed with the force fail method. Everything seems to be working fine; all blue lights are on again, I noticed the free space did not change it still says "Available storage: 52 Blu-ray discs, 287 DVDs or 3206 CDs" both before and after I replaced the failed drive.
Don't know if that is normal or if the old drive will not work in my system anymore and it just looks it is working. Hoping someone can let me know.
Thanks,
Don't know if that is normal or if the old drive will not work in my system anymore and it just looks it is working. Hoping someone can let me know.
Thanks,