Homelab Hero · No. 007: your result

Second-best call. 80 Hero Points.

The tempting gamble, and it might even work — a finished resilver restores redundancy, which is the thing you are short of. But full speed is the heaviest read load the surviving disks will ever see, the erroring disk is the one you can least afford to push, and the photo library's last verified backup is three weeks old. If that disk dies mid-run, the pool goes with it and three weeks of photos are the floor of the loss, not the ceiling.

The lesson: Speed is not safety when a survivor is already erroring.

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Homelab Hero No. 007 — I took partial credit on the mid-resilver second-disk call (80/200). Think you would call it better? Play it: https://homelabherald.com/hero/007?s=80

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