How to delete and cleaning up old hdd from Storage Pool?!

I'm using two 3TB HDDs within my Storage Pool to have a Mirrored Disk.

From time to time im changing the old hdds and im replacing them.

So, after the replacement i had to delete the old hdds.

So i thought i could to this with diskpart (clean command) but this will not work

because i'm getting still the wrong drive size of 5,.. TB (as it was in mirrored mode)

With my stripped HDDs i could use diskpart but not with mirrored ones...

NOW what can i do to erase / delete the old hdd to get an empty and usable fresh 3TB HD?

Thx for your help!

August 29th, 2015 8:29pm

Hi,

First I need to confirm the steps of replacing a physical disk in a Storage Pool.

You should add a new disk, retire the old one, perform a Repair-VirtualDisk (or right click on virtual disk and choose Repair in GUI), and remove the retired disk in GUI or run a cmdlet such as Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $PDToRemove -StoragePoolFriendlyName <Poolname>.

If the physical disk is removed from the storage pool, you should able to see it in Disk Manager as a stand-alone disk. 


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August 31st, 2015 10:43pm

I have only used the GUI Interface therefore I

- put a new disk into the storage pool and marked it to automatic

- then i clicked repair on the virtual disk

- after 48h nothing happend, then i plugged off the hdd manual

Is it not possible to do all steps by gui?

Or has it to be a mix of gui and powerhshell?

September 1st, 2015 3:45am

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