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Does manually failing impending failure drive cause difference of data protection?

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  • E-Series
  • Drive is in Impending failure state with enough spare drives or preservation capacity

Answer

No. From the data protection perspective, there is no difference between the following methods:
  • Replace the drive after it is failed

Impending failure drive gets failed once its contents are copied to spare drives or preservation capacity, then these contents are copied back after the drive is replaced

  • Replace the drive after manually failing

After manually failing the Impending failure drive without copying data, reconstruction is performed

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