On 2024-01-09, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > My default plan is to identify an appropriate model and buy a pair of > replacement drives, but not install them yet; buy another two drives > every six months, until I have a full replacement set; and start failing > drives out of the RAID array and installing replacements as soon as one > either fails, or looks like it's imminently about to fail. But if the > mass notification mails indicate that all eight are nearing failure, > that might not be enough - and if they don't indicate any likelihood of > failure this year, then buying replacement drives yet might be > premature. >
Isn't it advised not to use the drives in this case, or to unmount them, or to avoid all reads and writes (or however it should be termed, as we all agree your symptoms mean trouble) in order to avoid exacerabating the upcoming failure? Or does this go without saying?
