u/KnightPlutonian

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How do I replace a Broken/Faulted Drive?

I know this is an incredibly basic question, but could someone give me an idiot-proof, step-by-step guide on how to replace a failing drive? The only simple thread I could find had a solution that linked to TrueNAS's documentation for the process, which I conceptually understand runs under HexOS, but haven't interacted directly with in the slightest, and all the rest were more technical than I could understand.

One drive is currently marked as Faulted (and the storage pool states that only 1 drive can fail without data loss), so I don't want to do anything incorrectly lose data. I've already gotten a drive of identical size to the failed drive, do I just turn off the system, unplug the broken drive, and plug in the new drive in its place? Do I need to have the new drive plugged in while the old drive is still plugged in and hit the "Replace" button in HexOS to have it copy stuff over first? Will I need to do something in HexOS after the drive is replaced to make sure everything is copied over correctly? I'm exclusively using the system as a NAS, so there aren't any apps installed/running.

Thanks for any help.

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u/KnightPlutonian — 7 days ago