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W10. Storage pool composed of four drives. I had two drives get degraded, in my storage pool, and had to replace them.
The dead drives are now marked as "retired" , and has been physically removed, but I can't actually remove them from the Storage Spaces. It throws an error saying that it can't finish removing files from the drives, and to add an additional hard disk.
I found guides saying that I need to run a repair-virtualdisk. I've since run a chkdsk, repair-virtualdisk, an optimization, rebooted, and I STILL cannot get these disks to allow me to remove them. What's the issue, here? How do I forcibly remove these non-existent drives from the cluster?
PS C:\Users\username> get-storagejob
Name IsBackgroundTask ElapsedTime JobState PercentComplete BytesProcessed BytesTotal
Helium Pool-Repair True 00:07:11 Suspended 0 0 B 1 GB
PS C:\Users\username> get-physicaldisk
Number FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size
3 ATA ST12000NT001-3LX SCSI Disk Device 0007 HDD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 10.91 TB
ATA HGST HUH728080AL SCSI Disk Device 0005 HDD False Lost Communication Warning Retired 7.28 TB
```1 ATA HGST HUH728080AL SCSI Disk Device 0004 HDD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 7.28 TB
2 ATA ST12000NT001-3LX SCSI Disk Device 0003 HDD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 10.91 TB
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ATA HGST HUH728080AL SCSI Disk Device 0002 HDD False Lost Communication Warning Retired 7.28 TB
```0 ATA HGST HUH728080AL SCSI Disk Device 0001 HDD False OK Healthy Auto-Select 7.28 TB
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Hi Matt R,
Please see if the following commands can remove the retired disks from the storage space pool.
$disks = Get-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired
Remove-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName "Storage Spaces" -PhysicalDisks $disks
Best Regards,
Ian Xue
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I tried that again, here's the results: I've a repair that's suspended and refuses to un-suspend, and despite being left running (from an elevated PowerShell console) for 5+ hours, the RemovePhysicalDisk still says it's running, but the elapsed time hasn't changed from 00:00:00.
PS C:\Users\username> Get-StorageJob
Name IsBackgroundTask ElapsedTime JobState PercentComplete BytesProcessed BytesTotal
RemovePhysicalDisk False 00:00:00 Running 0 0 B 0 B
Helium Pool-Repair True 3.01:45:26 Suspended 0 0 B 1 GB
I wound up having to destroy the entire storage pool to fix the problem. Thanks to a mistake on my part, when copying data off the pool, I've now lost a LOT of data. I'm going to move away from storage spaces entirely, as a result of this.
This product is absolutely not a functional one, and I'll be pushing to make sure it isn't utilized anywhere I work, now or in the future.
The solution to this was to delete the pool, and recreate it. Thanks to a mistake when migrating data to a different location, I've now lost an unknown amount of data. I'm going to look for a different solution, and move away from storage spaces. They've now shown themselves to be unreliable and worthless.