I have several issues that may be complicated (definitely for me).
Note: My system now has 4 RED WD drives. The 2 bad black WD drives have been replaced. This pool should consist of 2 main drives and 2 mirrored drives
The 1st and MOST important issue is that my pool is in a degraded state but all drives report that they are functioning properly. I'm assuming that a failed drive copied over corrupted information before being replaced. My intent is to copy all my important data to an external drive and replace the pool with a new one (after upgrading from Freenas 11 to the latest TrueNAS).
I'm going to identify each drive based on their physical location in my NAS (Bay 1-4). If I disconnect EITHER Bay 1 or Bay 3, the Pool no longer appears in the GUI. Bay 2 and 4 can be disconnected without an issue. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but I'm assuming that these 2 drives are my only copies of the pool (I don't know how to confirm this) and both my other drives are a mirror of only 1 of the drives.
I would like to attempt to fix this in an attempt to learn more about my NAS. Because of the fact that I have already backed up all my data (and am going to double check by copying it again), I'm not too concerned about losing anything. That being said, I still have access to all my data because the pool is still functioning when Bay 1 and 3 are connected.
Finally, what is the best (and easiest) way to identify all my drives without reading the SN on the drives or disconnecting/reconnecting the drives to see which ones appear and disappear? Thank you for your help in advance.
Note: My system now has 4 RED WD drives. The 2 bad black WD drives have been replaced. This pool should consist of 2 main drives and 2 mirrored drives
The 1st and MOST important issue is that my pool is in a degraded state but all drives report that they are functioning properly. I'm assuming that a failed drive copied over corrupted information before being replaced. My intent is to copy all my important data to an external drive and replace the pool with a new one (after upgrading from Freenas 11 to the latest TrueNAS).
I'm going to identify each drive based on their physical location in my NAS (Bay 1-4). If I disconnect EITHER Bay 1 or Bay 3, the Pool no longer appears in the GUI. Bay 2 and 4 can be disconnected without an issue. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but I'm assuming that these 2 drives are my only copies of the pool (I don't know how to confirm this) and both my other drives are a mirror of only 1 of the drives.
I would like to attempt to fix this in an attempt to learn more about my NAS. Because of the fact that I have already backed up all my data (and am going to double check by copying it again), I'm not too concerned about losing anything. That being said, I still have access to all my data because the pool is still functioning when Bay 1 and 3 are connected.
Finally, what is the best (and easiest) way to identify all my drives without reading the SN on the drives or disconnecting/reconnecting the drives to see which ones appear and disappear? Thank you for your help in advance.