I have a Raid-Z2 pool with 6 * 4TB drives. All the drives have a bit over 40 000 hours running time. Now they all seem to be degrading at the same time. The pool is degraded, and all drives are marked as degraded with to many errors. But luckily no lost data at the moment.
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
File DEGRADED 0 0 0
raidz2-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
sda DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
sdb DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
sdc DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
sdd DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
sde DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
sdf DEGRADED 0 0 0 too many errors
I would like to build a new pool with Raid-Z1 and 3 * 6TB drives as I don’t need all the space as in the original pool. My problem is that the old pool has 6 drives and my pool will have 3, but my SAS controller only has 8 ports. So I would like to disconnect one disk from my Raid-Z2 pool, connect my 3 new drives and create a new pool with them and then save my data by copying to the new pool before the old pool fails.
Is that possible? My thinking is that the old pool should work with one disk missing. But when I tried disconnecting a disk I’m unable to access any data in the old pool.
Anyone know how to solve this?
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Author: Northern Brewer