Always pre-purchase one extra drive to have on hand. When you get it, confirm it was not dead-on-arrival by hooking up on an external USB to a workstation and running whatever your favorite tools are to validate it is okay. Then put it back in its original packaging, and put a label on it about what it is, and that it is a spare for box(s) XYZ disk system.
When a drive fails, use that one off the shelf to do your replacement immediately then deal with the RMA, paperwork, and snailmail to get the bad drive replaced. Also, depending how many disks you have in your array - keeping multiple spares can be a good idea as well to cover another disk dying while waiting on that replacement one. In my opinion, the above goes whether you have your disk system configured with hot spare or not. And the technique is applicable to both personal/home-use and commercial uses if your data is important. - Mike On May 28, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Brian wrote: > I have a raidz2 pool with one disk that seems to be going bad, several errors > are noted in iostat. I have an RMA for the drive, however - no I am > wondering how I proceed. I need to send the drive in and then they will send > me one back. If I had the drive on hand, I could do a zpool replace. > > Do I do a zpool offline? zpool detach? > Once I get the drive back and put it in the same drive bay.. Is it just a > zpool replace <device>? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
