I have a drive that has developed a large number of bad sectors and I want to remove it from my server. Today I added two new drives so I have plenty of free space. I also have all content duplicated so I'm not worried about losing anything. Can someone suggest the best method for removing this failing drive from the server? I'm afraid that if I just use the "Remove" function some of the files on this drive that contain bad blocks will get duplicated to one of the new drives - I'd like to prevent this from happening.
You could treat it as a failed drive. In other words, power down the server, disconnect the drive, then power the server back up. When it boots, you will get a missing drive message (plus a whole bunch of error messages/file conflicts). Just remove the drive through the Console and it will automatically duplicate your files across the remaining free space.
