I use the ZFS on my Ubuntu natively (on root). I have two 2TB Seagate
Hard drives, one 1TB also Seagate which is the oldest and the failed
2TB hard drive. I can't tell which one is going to fail next. It is
never about the hours and years it has been spinning. The youngest
drive is 1 year and 1 month old. The oldest drive is 7 years plus
months.
It is the Operating System and or the motherboard itself which tells
you when a hard drive is failing. When this happens, ZFS will also
concur and declares the pool degraded. I have three hard drives
(devices) that form the pool plus one hard drive for parity. Parity
means 1 drive can fail without data loss.
I have to take the failed drive offline. The command for that is:
#zpool offline [pool] [device]
You can use the device GUID or the name of the device.
I then replaced the old hard drive with the new one. The command for
that is :
#zpool replace [pool] [old device] [new device]
You can use the device ...
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