hi, long-time lurker first-time poster.
for reasons besides the meat of my actual question (though i am happy to go into them if necessary), i had to contact WD support about one of the 6 reds in my NAS.
i tried google-site-search-ing this with about 10-15 different phrasings, but didn't find anything that told me what i'm looking for. if this has actually already been answered, i'm happy to just get linked to another forum post.
WD support wants me to plug the drive into a windows machine and run some piece of WD software to scan the drive, instead of relying on its SMART attributes. i'm happy to do this, though i want to double-check some things and get some assurances first. (i guess i made my title a little clickbaity.)
first off: if i shut down the nas, put the drive into windows, run the test, and then put the drive back into the nas, then turn the nas on;
for reasons besides the meat of my actual question (though i am happy to go into them if necessary), i had to contact WD support about one of the 6 reds in my NAS.
i tried google-site-search-ing this with about 10-15 different phrasings, but didn't find anything that told me what i'm looking for. if this has actually already been answered, i'm happy to just get linked to another forum post.
WD support wants me to plug the drive into a windows machine and run some piece of WD software to scan the drive, instead of relying on its SMART attributes. i'm happy to do this, though i want to double-check some things and get some assurances first. (i guess i made my title a little clickbaity.)
first off: if i shut down the nas, put the drive into windows, run the test, and then put the drive back into the nas, then turn the nas on;
- do i need to "offline" the drive first, if it's going to be present both before and after the time-displaced reboot?
- how about if it might not be, in case the drive returns any errors after all?
- will windows' automatic disk repairs do anything weird to the data?
- if it does, will freenas just treat it as corruption and repair the disk if i run a scrub?
- would freenas instead treat it as proper even if it isn't, and corrupt the zpool?
- is there anything else that i'm missing that i might need to do?