I am lacking common sense today: Should I remove a faulty HDD while the new one arrives?

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I am lacking common sense today: Should I remove a faulty HDD while the new one arrives?

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Hi there,

I have a RAID1... 2 HDD on a TS 251D.
One of them has bad sectors and I'll receive the new one In a few days.

Considering the disk is failing. And a mirror copy is on the good HDD.
Would it not be best just to remove the faulty one now before the next one arrives.
... as opposed to leaving it there, in its degraded state?

Initially I was going to wait and swap it there and then, when the new one arrived.
But it's been two days now, and the number of bad sectors keeps growing.
Which puts me on the fence.

Clearly I'm overthinking this....
Advice greatly appreciated.
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Re: I am lacking common sense today: Should I remove a faulty HDD while the new one arrives?

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shouldn't matter at all .. just make sure you have full external backups at all times .. if the other disk fails during rebuild you will have nothing left
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Re: I am lacking common sense today: Should I remove a faulty HDD while the new one arrives?

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Thanks dolbyman,
Long live relatively cheap backups on the Amazon Iceberg.
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As long as there is backups.. it could be local,cloud or space backups ... you will be glad you have em
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Re: I am lacking common sense today: Should I remove a faulty HDD while the new one arrives?

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If it is trying to "correct" the faults, then your performance may be impacted, so it that case removing it would potentially help in the short term. Since the drive has already failed (essentially) the data on it is more or less useless.

If it isn't causing you any issues, leave it. If it is impacting performance, remove it. Just get your data backed up asap and keep current backups at all times moving forward.
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